Container element is empty (IU Accessibility Mandate)

[mdalmau]

20 occurrences of this issue ... Looks like the HTML is spitting out an empty unordered list in the search / search results pages: <ul class="results"></ul>

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• [ ] Ask Bill who should be added to the SiteImprove tool

[mdalmau]

@tubesoft : At the Newton meeting today, Bill said you would be working on these accessibility issues. I requested SiteImprove access for you. Once you have access, you will login using your @iu credentials. If you want to read more about SIteImprove and accessibility, LOGIN to the KB and start here.

Could you have a look at this issue and confirm it's something you can fix? Once you confirm, we can figure out a testing workflow.

[tubesoft]

In solr-response-to-html.xsl, the search results are printed between <ul class="results"> and </ul>. That is, if the search results are none, only <ul class="results"></ul> remains (See image below). From the perspective of programming, it does not seem to be too bad. In order to omit <ul class="results"></ul>, I would need to add a condition of printing <ul class="results"></ul>. Do we really need to follow this warning strictly? Program-wise, leaving it as it is is much simpler.

[mdalmau]

@tubesoft : yes, all these issues must be fixed. There’s no way around this. If you think it’s beyond your comfort level, we can set that aside for Bill to figure out with Conal but anything you can do, please do because we are under a deadline! Thank you.

[tubesoft]

Okay, I managed to fix it. Before:

After:

[mdalmau]

Since this issue is now part of https://github.com/IUBLibTech/newton_chymistry/pull/146, I will mark this issue as "done" so I can better see the remaining accessibility issues!