Primer Alpha::ToggleSwitch doesn't support custom status label

[bsatarnejad]

Steps to reproduce

Go to Toggle switch lookbook: https://primer.style/view-components/lookbook/inspect/primer/alpha/toggle_switch/playground

Current behavior:
It doesn't support passing custom label for status:

Expected behavior:
Passing status label to the toggle switch:

[lesliecdubs]

Hi, thanks for filing this issue! This is performing as designed in order to satisfy accessibility requirements. There's a bit more detail about this in the docs: https://primer.style/product/components/toggle-switch/accessibility/. Let us know if you have further concerns.

[bsatarnejad]

Hi, thanks for filing this issue! This is performing as designed in order to satisfy accessibility requirements. There's a bit more detail about this in the docs: https://primer.style/product/components/toggle-switch/accessibility/. Let us know if you have further concerns.

Hi @lesliecdubs,
Thank you for the clarification. I understand the reasoning for keeping the labels consistent with the ARIA switch pattern.

One consideration I’d like to raise is localization. In multilingual applications, showing the labels only in English (“On/Off”) can feel inconsistent to users in other locales. For example, when the app is set to German, showing “On/Off” in English can feel inconsistent. The semantics would remain the same, but allowing the labels to come from locale files rather than being hardcoded would improve the user experience in localized environments.

[lesliecdubs]

Thanks for bringing up the localization concern, @bsatarnejad; it's a valid one. We're not currently investing in supportability for localization in PVC, so this isn't a change we're likely to make right now but may be something we come back around to in the future.