Adding Products to Group via the Keyboard

  • Resolved abletec

    (@abletec)


    6 years, 2 months ago

    Hello. I posted this over at the accessibility forum, but it was suggested I post here as well, so here goes. Maybe it’s just me being stupid (again), but has anyone tried adding products to a group via the keyboard? If it’s possible, could you please share how? I’m using latest WP, latest WC, latest Firefox as my browser, & latest NVDA as my screen reader, if that helps. I can’t count how many times I’ve tried, w/o success. This doesn’t look as though it would be a hard thing to do, just have checkboxes appear in front of suggested products, maybe even a ‘select all’ button for convenience, & then an ‘Add products to group’ button, but as it is now, unless I’m seriously missing something, which I grant is entirely possible, it’s truly a nightmare. & since WC is by Automattic, as is WordPress, then it really should be meeting WCAG 2.0 at the AA standard, as is core.
    Thanks for any help that may be forthcoming.

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  • Plugin Support John Coy a11n

    (@johndcoy)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    Hi @abletec

    From the WP Admin, adding products to a Grouped product does not currently list products but rather requires the first three characters of a product’s title before it can be added to a grouped product. You mentioned an “Add products to group button” but this button isn’t native to WooCommerce. Is is possibly a feature added by another plugin or the active theme?

    Thread Starter abletec

    (@abletec)

    Hello, @johndcoy. Yes, I know about searching the product by typing. I got 19 products listed when I did so, which was the proper amount, , but I can’t add them to the group. I suspect it takes some sort of mouse-clicking? but, as a screen reader user, that’s not actually possible.

    The reference to the ‘add to group’ was merely a suggestion as to how this could be made more accessible, ie, via checkboxes & and ‘add to group’ button.

    Can you perchance try adding products to a group using only the keyboard, ie no mouse allowed? Then perhaps you’ll either understand the problem or be able to give me a workaround.

    Thank you.

    Plugin Support John Coy a11n

    (@johndcoy)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    Hi

    “I got 19 products listed when I did so, which was the proper amount, but I can’t add them to the group. I suspect it takes some sort of mouse-clicking? but, as a screen reader user, that’s not actually possible.”

    After some extensive testing, I was able to type in the name of the product I wanted to add to the group then press the “return” key to complete the process of adding the highlighted product to the list. If the letters used shows more than one product, you can also use the arrow keys to highlight the preferred product before pressing return to add it to the list.

    Can you give this a try and let us know how it works for you?

    Thanks again,

    Thread Starter abletec

    (@abletec)

    I was able to search for products. In my case, I got 19, & they all should be members of the group. But I couldn’t select them all in 1 go & add them. Seems like having to add them individually is pretty inefficient? Did you try to add more than 1 product to the group at a time, ie, a hole bunch of products?

    Plugin Support AW a11n

    (@slash1andy)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    Hey there!

    Adding multiple products to a group is not something you can do with keyboard or mouse at this time. It would be great to have you add your ideas to the Ideas Board(https://ideas.woocommerce.com/forums/133476-woocommerce), which is where developers go to look for future plugin features and improvements.

    Moderator Bet Hannon

    (@bethannon1)

    Jackie, if you added a request for this on the WooCommerce idea form, could you post the link here so that we can vote and comment in favor of it there?

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