accessibility issues to think about

Justin Obara obara.justin at gmail.com
Tue Aug 24 14:11:41 UTC 2010


In looking through some of our accessibility (a11y) issues, there are several that I believe could use a little more thought and/or discussion. 

FLUID-2964:
Research a11y best practices for re-orderer
http://issues.fluidproject.org/browse/FLUID-2964

This covers issues such as how to describe the layout of the reorderable items.

FLUID-2652:
JAWS announces that an inline edit area is a button
http://issues.fluidproject.org/browse/FLUID-2652

There are no specific aria roles that describe the functionality of an inline editable field. The button role was originally chosen as it seemed the most appropriate, but it still can be confusing to screen reader users.

FLUID-985:
Convey the deletable and completed states for file rows
http://issues.fluidproject.org/browse/FLUID-985

In the file queue for the uploader you are able to remove files from the queue until they have been uploaded. The title of the row was changed to read "File Uploaded" after it had been uploaded. However, this does not seem to work across all screen reader / browser  configurations. Is this just a bug that needs to be addressed, or is there a better approach?

There are more details to talk about, the above commentary is just a starter. Please let us know what your thoughts on the issues are and how we can adequately address them. For more a11y issues in Infusion you can take a look at the a11y filter we have in our jira repository.

http://issues.fluidproject.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=10320

Thanks
Justin




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