From 06acce1791e97045419231fa23a5a4768becb4ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike Gower <michael.gower@ca.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 11:27:10 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Update name.html

An attempt to make a clearer connection between "name" and "accessible name", which we currently have stated in Understanding documents such as https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understanding/label-in-name, but not in a note to the defined term.
---
 guidelines/terms/20/name.html | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/guidelines/terms/20/name.html b/guidelines/terms/20/name.html
index c51273a1fe..32fcac3b22 100644
--- a/guidelines/terms/20/name.html
+++ b/guidelines/terms/20/name.html
@@ -8,5 +8,7 @@
    </p>
    
    <p class="note">This is unrelated to the name attribute in HTML.</p>
+
+   <p class="note">The term "accessible name", is a synonym for "name". The term is also defined and used in the <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/accname-1.2/#dfn-accessible-name">Accessible Names and Description Computation</a></p>
    
 </dd>