Latest Posts: Add aria-label to featured links (#36251)

* Add aria-label to featured links
* Move title var to top of foreach loop
* include title as aria-label content for each featured image link

packages/block-library/src/latest-posts/index.php

@@ -60,6 +60,11 @@ function render_block_core_latest_posts( $attributes ) {
 
  foreach ( $recent_posts as $post ) {
  $post_link = esc_url( get_permalink( $post ) );
+ $title = get_the_title( $post );
+
+ if ( ! $title ) {
+ $title = __( '(no title)' );
+ }
 
  $list_items_markup .= '<li>';
 
@@ -86,8 +91,9 @@ function render_block_core_latest_posts( $attributes ) {
  );
  if ( $attributes['addLinkToFeaturedImage'] ) {
  $featured_image = sprintf(
- '<a href="%1$s">%2$s</a>',
+ '<a href="%1$s" aria-label="%2$s">%3$s</a>',
  $post_link,
+ $title,
  $featured_image
  );
  }
@@ -98,10 +104,6 @@ function render_block_core_latest_posts( $attributes ) {
  );
  }
 
- $title = get_the_title( $post );
- if ( ! $title ) {
- $title = __( '(no title)' );
- }
  $list_items_markup .= sprintf(
  '<a href="%1$s">%2$s</a>',
  $post_link,