Accessibility and Screen Readers

  • Resolved msapsard

    (@msapsard)


    2 years, 2 months ago

    You once advised me to use the [Expand] function, as below, so that screen readers would just read the titles as they traversed a table row. It had the advantage that every time a new cell title was clicked on, the previously expanded cell was closed, so that it was not re-read when a new cell was expanded. Now, using HTML 5 <details><summary> </summary></details> the previously opened cells do not close. Is there a way to close any already expanded cell?

    [expand title=”Art Club” trigclass=”boldy_mc_boldface” rel=”grps-highlander”]Gadebridge Community Centre, Galley Hill, HH
    <i>Friday 2 weekly, 10:00 – 12:00</i>
    See Digest for contact name.
    See Digest for phone no.
    See Map
    See: Group web page
    Group no: 000
    Email Group Leader[/expand]

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  • Plugin Author Tobias B?thge

    (@tobiasbg)

    Hi,

    thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.

    That [expand] Shortcode doesn’t ring a bell, and I don’t recall recommending this previously, sorry.

    As for the new HTML: This should in principle be possible with some custom JavaScript code. However, this is out of the scope of TablePress as it doesn’t directly have to do with tables, so that I’m unable to assist with this, sorry.

    Regards,
    Tobias

    Plugin Author Tobias B?thge

    (@tobiasbg)

    Hi again,

    to add on: I’m actually not sure that it’s desirable to close any other expanded sections when opening a new one. This removes the ability to e.g. compare information, and it feels wrong to close something that I’m not actively interacting with.

    But that certainly might be my personal opinion.

    Regards,
    Tobias

    Thread Starter msapsard

    (@msapsard)

    Someone suggested the expand short code several years ago. I could have picked it up from anywhere.

    I adopted it because I asked a blind person to check out the website. He had his screen reader set to such a high speed that I could not follow what was being read. The screen reader that he used, read a row at a time, all expanded cells. It was convenient for him, and I decided it was not so inconvenient for sighted users, because I thought they rarely compare the contents of two cells in our application. I’ll now have a look at css collapse.

    Plugin Author Tobias B?thge

    (@tobiasbg)

    Hi,

    ah, ok. Yes, feedback from users actually using a feature (like a screen reading software) is definitely great here! I don’t have any experience with that, so my comment above was just a hunch.

    Best wishes,
    Tobias

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