How to fix aria meter name on WooCommerce

Steps for WooCommerce

1. In WordPress Admin, go to Appearance → Theme File Editor (or use a child theme / FTP) and search for `role="meter"`, `<meter`, or star-rating templates in your active theme.
2. WooCommerce's built-in star rating is rendered in `woocommerce/templates/single-product/rating.php` and `loop/rating.php`. Copy these to your child theme under `yourchildtheme/woocommerce/single-product/rating.php`.
3. Open the copied file and add `aria-label="Average customer rating"` to the `<meter>` or `role="meter"` element.
4. Alternatively, install the 'WP Accessibility' plugin (by Joe Dolson) which patches several common ARIA labelling issues automatically, then verify the meter fix specifically.
5. Clear any caching plugins and test with axe DevTools or a screen reader.

<meter role="meter" aria-label="Average customer rating" aria-valuenow="4.2" aria-valuemin="0" aria-valuemax="5" value="4.2" min="0" max="5"> 4.2 out of 5 </meter>

<!-- OR using aria-labelledby -->
<p id="rating-label">Average customer rating</p>
<meter aria-labelledby="rating-label" value="4.2" min="0" max="5">4.2 out of 5</meter>

What is aria meter name?

A "meter" is a web element that visually displays a measurement within a known range — for example, a product rating bar, a stock-level indicator, a review score gauge, or a loyalty-points progress bar. When a developer gives an element the ARIA role of `meter` (or uses the native HTML `<meter>` tag), assistive technologies like screen readers need a text label that explains *what* is being measured. Without that label, a screen reader will announce something unhelpful like "meter, 60%" with no context about whether that number refers to a rating, a storage level, or anything else. The `aria-meter-name` rule flags any meter element that is missing this accessible name.

Screen reader users — who may be blind, have low vision, or have cognitive disabilities — rely entirely on text labels to understand what a meter is communicating. Without a name, a product rating bar is meaningless noise, which can directly cause a visually-impaired shopper to lose confidence in your product and abandon their purchase. Under WCAG 2.1 Success Criterion 1.1.1 (Non-text Content, Level A) and 4.1.2 (Name, Role, Value, Level A), this is a baseline legal accessibility requirement in many jurisdictions — including the ADA in the United States, the European Accessibility Act, and the UK Equality Act. Failing it exposes your store to complaints, legal action, and exclusion from the roughly 1-in-5 users who have a disability. It can also hurt your SEO indirectly, because search engines reward sites that follow structured, semantically correct markup.

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