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DanWin / le-chat-php

A PHP Chat based on LE CHAT
https://danwin1210.de/chat/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Accessibility and visual improvements #110

Open Finnboy94 opened 3 years ago

Finnboy94 commented 3 years ago

The automatic refresh causes screen readers to throw keyboard focus to the end of the message list frame. This causes you to lose the current position. As a resolution I think maybe javaScript could be used to have a different update type, maybe even make the updating dynamic so that the messages arrive in real time. A few sighted users reported that the message list and the buttons in the bar (suck has messages, update chat box etc) are of different size, more specifically the button bar is larger. Not sure if this is desireable, but I also received a suggestion that the login an dregister be split, so that login is on the front page and registering a different page. This is what's on my mind right now.

ghost commented 3 years ago

@Finnboy94 I will say although those are some suggestions to work with, it is one of the main goals for le-chat-php to have no JavaScript involved whatsoever.

ghost commented 3 years ago

If anything, it sounds like the CSS is the real problem, in my opinion.

Finnboy94 commented 3 years ago

That's very possible, yeah. I'll see if I can find ways to improve it myself, although being blind CSS is not the easiest to work with.

ghost commented 3 years ago

How are you even reading this is you are blind? You're probably messing with me, but I think you mean colorblind, right?

Finnboy94 commented 3 years ago

How are you even reading this is you are blind? You're probably messing with me, but I think you mean colorblind, right?

Actually no, I am totally blind since birth. I use a screen reading software, more specifically Non-Visual Desktop Access (NVDA) on a Windows 10 machine or, if on my phone, VoiceOver on iOS.