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Opened 7 years ago

Closed 7 years ago

#7271 closed enhancement (fixed)

Accessibility: Group radio buttons in fieldsets for Site creation

Reported by: mercime's profile mercime Owned by: mercime's profile mercime
Milestone: 2.7 Priority: normal
Severity: normal Version:
Component: Blogs Keywords: has-patch has-screenshots
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Description

For radio buttons related to creating a new site in the "Create a Site" and the "Register" templates, some screen reader users who tab through form controls will be confused as to what the "Yes" and "No" buttons are all about. The text, "Privacy: I would like my site to appear in search engines, and in public listings around this network", is not associated to a form control and thus not read aloud by the screen reader.

To replicate: Close your eyes, open up a screen reader of choice, and tab through the form.

Note: in one instance, I think I heard only the word 'privacy' while tabbing through the form: ".. Site title (required) edit has auto complete, Privacy, Yes radio button checked 1 of 2, No radio button unchecked ..." but could not replicate it. But even if by chance they hear "Privacy", screen reader users have no idea what kind or level of privacy we are referring to for the new site.

To resolve this issue, we're surrounding the radio form controls for screens mentioned above with fieldsets and using the text for the legend. Ideally the legend should be shorter than the text we currently have because the legend will be read for each radio button. In this case though, clarity of information especially relating to privacy trumps the length.

Attachments (3)

7271.patch (4.9 KB) - added by mercime 7 years ago.
create-site-fieldset.png (15.9 KB) - added by mercime 7 years ago.
registration-fieldset.png (22.3 KB) - added by mercime 7 years ago.

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Change History (7)

@mercime
7 years ago

#1 @mercime
7 years ago

  • Keywords has-patch has-screenshots added

#2 @mercime
7 years ago

  • Milestone changed from Awaiting Review to 2.7

This ticket was mentioned in Slack in #buddypress by mercime. View the logs.


7 years ago

#4 @mercime
7 years ago

  • Owner set to mercime
  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from new to closed

In 11173:

Accessibility: Add fieldsets for radio buttons in Site privacy sections.

Fixes #7271.

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