accessibility issues to think about

[Richards, Jan]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin Obara [mailto:obara.justin at gmail.com]
> Sent: August 24, 2010 10:12 AM
> To: Fluid Work
> Cc: Clark, Colin; Gay, Greg; Richards, Jan
> Subject: accessibility issues to think about
> 
> 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.

I agree that this could be broken into several bugs.


> 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.

What about "textbox" with additional info in the title etc. that it is locked and that ENTER will unlock it?

> 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?

A few ideas:
- "File Name" might be changed to something like "Files Ready for Upload"
- delete buttons currently all have the same title="Remove File", this could be changed to title="Remove File FILE_NAME" (and a similar thing for the successful icons)
- Upload could have title="Upload all files ready for upload"
- "To upload" maybe more clear as "Ready to upload"

Cheers,
Jan

> 
> 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&req
> uestId=10320
> 
> Thanks
> Justin