inaccessibilities in the settings panels

  • Resolved Michael

    (@lilmike)


    6 years, 10 months ago

    Hi,
    I’m blind, so use a screen reader to access my computer, and thus, the internet. However, sometime recently (I’m not sure exactly when), the shield plugin seemingly started using a new html forms library or similar, and it is now somewhat inaccessible with my screen reader. The main spots I’ve seen that are inaccessible are things like check boxes, where they just show up as clickables and my screen reader can’t tell me if they’re checked or not. There could be others, but I haven’t looked into it very far.
    If I can do anything to help make the settings panels accessible again, I’d love to! ??
    -Michael.

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  • Plugin Author Paul

    (@paultgoodchild)

    Thanks for the feedback on this, Michael. We’ve included some accessibility features in the UI, but admittedly, not as much as we ought. Could you elaborate in as much detail as you could on the items that aren’t clear or need work? We’ll do everything we can to resolve this wherever possible.

    Thanks again for your feedback!

    Thread Starter Michael

    (@lilmike)

    Hi there,
    So far as I can tell, the only thing really needing work are check boxes. However, the checkboxes manage to totally bomb (when everything else is pretty much 100% accessible). Basically the problem is that either A. the checkbox itself is styled in such a way my screen reader doesn’t read it, though it does read the label, or the control to check/uncheck is coded in such a way my screen reader doesn’t know it’s a checkbox.
    In the first case, well just styling it so a screen reader can see it would fix it, and in the second, either using standard check boxes (highly recommended!) or using aria to tell screen readers “Hey! This here is a checkbox!” would work.
    Thanks!
    -Michael.

    Plugin Author Paul

    (@paultgoodchild)

    Great, well I’m glad to hear that it’s most of the way there. We have special checkbox UI stuff in there, so perhaps scrapping that is more ideal. I’ll tweak it for the next major release and if you can let me know if you see improvements, that’d be great.
    Thanks!

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