Opened 10 years ago
Closed 10 years ago
#32713 closed defect (bug) (fixed)
Customizer Menus: Accessibility: make the aria-label for the "+ Add Items" button more descriptive
Reported by: | designsimply | Owned by: | SergeyBiryukov |
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Milestone: | 4.3 | Priority: | normal |
Severity: | normal | Version: | 4.3 |
Component: | Customize | Keywords: | has-patch commit |
Focuses: | accessibility | Cc: |
Description
Moving this over from https://github.com/voldemortensen/menu-customizer/issues/84
Talking about how you either need to open the item to find the delete link inside or you can click the +Add Items
button to access the quick-delete icons, @afercia says:
Ideally the
+ Add Items
button text should describe the set of actions made available when you press it. I understand that visually this is a minor issue since sighted users can actually see the red X. Also, I understand the troubles screen reader users will face: if they look for something to delete menu items, it's very unlikely they will activate a button that says "Add Items". We should try to find a good balance between visual and semantics, where the latter is not just "abstract semantics" but real information as used by software and consequently by people using that software. It's always about people :)
If you're OK with "Add Items" for the visual part, I'd be happy to use a more descriptive
aria-label
attribute on the button:aria-label="Add or remove menu items"
.
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10 years ago
- Component changed from General to Customize
- Focuses accessibility added
- Keywords has-patch commit added
- Milestone changed from Awaiting Review to 4.3
- Version set to trunk
Proposed patch simply adds an aria-label attribute. See in the screenshot below how aria-label completely overrides the default text (which doesn't get read out). Used this way, an aria-label attribute can be a very useful means to provide more descriptive UI controls to Assistive Technologies.