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fix(a11y): remove aria-describedby attribute when no descriptions are left #17074

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Currently the AriaDescriber will leave an empty aria-describedby attribute once all of the descriptions have been removed. These changes remove the attribute completely in order to avoid potential a11y issues.

Fixes #17070.

@crisbeto crisbeto added P3 An issue that is relevant to core functions, but does not impede progress. Important, but not urgent target: patch This PR is targeted for the next patch release labels Sep 13, 2019
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Currently the `AriaDescriber` will leave an empty `aria-describedby` attribute once all of the descriptions have been removed. These changes remove the attribute completely in order to avoid potential a11y issues.

Fixes angular#17070.
@crisbeto crisbeto force-pushed the aria-describer-empty branch from 8124fee to 045ea7a Compare September 13, 2019 15:52
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LGTM

@jelbourn jelbourn added merge: fix commit message When the PR is merged, rewrites/fixups of the commit messages are needed pr: lgtm action: merge The PR is ready for merge by the caretaker labels Sep 13, 2019
@jelbourn jelbourn merged commit e66de46 into angular:master Sep 18, 2019
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Currently the `AriaDescriber` will leave an empty `aria-describedby` attribute once all of the descriptions have been removed. These changes remove the attribute completely in order to avoid potential a11y issues.

Fixes angular#17070.

(cherry picked from commit e66de46)
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matTooltip on mat-header-cell adds aria-describedby which is not removed when tooltip becomes null
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