this is especially bad because <paper-textarea> is intentionally hiding the label for some reason with aria-hidden="true", so even navigation with stuff like VoiceOver+left/right doesn't give me any context

attached: screenshot of what this looks like for single-line <paper-inputs> (which have nice descriptions and groupings)

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this is a problem in <paper-textarea>.  i mighttttt patch chromium's local copy, because i have a hack^Wfix for the way that chrome uses this element, but it might not be appropriate for all polymer users.

this also only affects those using native shadow DOM.

The following revision refers to this bug:
  https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/bccdf9751bcbe5ac5cae4c3569b71c001514ebf8

commit bccdf9751bcbe5ac5cae4c3569b71c001514ebf8
Author: dbeam <dbeam@chromium.org>
Date: Wed Mar 15 07:06:23 2017

MD WebUI: temporary fix for <paper-textarea> a11y label problems

R=noms@chromium.org
BUG=700611
CQ_INCLUDE_TRYBOTS=master.tryserver.chromium.linux:closure_compilation

Review-Url: https://codereview.chromium.org/2745283004
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#457019}

[modify] https://crrev.com/bccdf9751bcbe5ac5cae4c3569b71c001514ebf8/third_party/polymer/v1_0/chromium.patch
[modify] https://crrev.com/bccdf9751bcbe5ac5cae4c3569b71c001514ebf8/third_party/polymer/v1_0/components-chromium/paper-input/paper-textarea-extracted.js

I'm no longer working on Chrome, and unlikely to fix any bug I'm currently assigned.

So this bug doesn't languish, I'm unassigning myself.

@hcarmona: Can you take a look at this? Can the temporary patch we currently have be up-streamed to paper-textarea itself?

See https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/third_party/polymer/v1_0/chromium.patch?type=cs&l=12-26.

Sure, I'll take a look and see if it's something we can upstream.

Filed this: https://github.com/PolymerElements/paper-input/issues/614