Accessibility – Form elements do not have associated labels

  • Resolved Phil

    (@owendevelopment)


    4 years, 10 months ago

    Looking to improve the score on accessibility tests using your plugin. The main textarea on comments does not include associated labels and thus fails a perfect score on pages using the plugin.

    I’ve tried overriding the templates in a theme but this had no impact on the comment textarea. Is there any scope to include this in an update if the comment form is not able to be overidden?

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  • Plugin Author gVectors Team

    (@gvectors-team)

    Hi @owendevelopment,
    Could you please provide one example? What exactly you’re seeking for?

    Thread Starter Phil

    (@owendevelopment)

    The comment form doesn’t have support for accessibility, so things like a label over the comment reply form, submit button etc

    https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/forms/labels/

    How was this resolved? I am having the exact same issue here…

    Thread Starter Phil

    (@owendevelopment)

    It wasn’t, unless there’s an update. Another thing I spotted was the social login buttons aren’t tags and so are not tabbable with other items on the page.

    @gvectors-team
    Here is how the failed test looks like:

    —————————–
    Form elements do not have associated labels
    Labels ensure that form controls are announced properly by assistive technologies, like screen readers. Learn more (https://web.dev/label/)
    Failing Elements:

    textarea
    <textarea id=”wc-textarea-0_0″ placeholder=”Join the discussion…” required=”” name=”wc_comment” class=”wc_comment wpd-field”></textarea>
    ————————————–

    Plugin Author gVectors Team

    (@gvectors-team)

    Ok, I see what you mean. We’ll add it in future releases. There is no way to add it in current version. And I don’t think this is a big problem for website SEO, just ignore it for now.

    It’s not really about SEO but accessibility for people that use assistive devices…

    And of course keeping on Google’s side of things…

    I’m fine waiting this out, agree it isn’t particularly urgent but it sounds like you’ll just push it far into a hidden corner.. it’s probably not so hard to fix/tell us some workaround…

    Thank you sir

    Plugin Author gVectors Team

    (@gvectors-team)

    @ganacontrolrsn,
    have you noticed that we’ve released a major version of wpDiscuz plugin? The beta version of wpDiscuz 7 is already available for testing here: https://beta.wpdiscuz.com/
    The workaround is not necessary, in this version there is no textarea, so I think the problem will be solved with next version.

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