Should text content be used for aria-valuetext?

[JAWS-test]

Should the text content of an element that aria-valuetext may own but does not own be used as value for aria-valuetext, e.g.

<meter>3</meter>
<div role=meter>3</div>

Attention: In the example further required attributes are missing. But the question is whether the 3 should be interpreted as aria-valuetext. If not, this should perhaps be mentioned explicitly in the specification, so that, for example, in the first WHATWG example ("Instead, one would either not include the meter element, ..."), the assumption does not arise that the text content would be perceivable with AT.

See also: FreedomScientific/standards-support#419

[aleventhal]

I think in the case of <meter>, yes it should be, as the inner text is a fallback description.
However, in the case of the ARIA meter role, I think no, because that inner contents is likely the implementation of the meter appearance. The author should be able to use aria-valuetext with the role meter.

[a11ydoer]

More info about aria-valuetext in meter

"When the element's values are contained within a range but those values are not numeric (such as "small", "medium" and "large"), or they are numeric but there is value in communicating more information than just a number, aria-valuetext is used to surface the text value to assistive technologies. Only use aria-valuetext when aria-valuenow is not sufficiently meaningful for users because using aria-valuetext will prevent assistive technologies from communicating aria-valuenow.

[jnurthen]

I'm not sure there is anything to do here. Anyone disagree?