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Miscellaneous usability issues. #60

Open mbstacy opened 3 years ago

mbstacy commented 3 years ago

When looking at the items under the “Explore Collections” tab on the main page, JAWS reads each item as “link graphic collection graphic [name of collection].” Hearing the word “graphic” twice in the same link is superfluous. NVDA did not read the word “graphic” multiple times.

The CU Scholar link at the top of each page reads as, “Scholar @ University of Colorado Boulder.” The way it is read sounds like an e-mail address, but it is actually the link to the CU Scholar page.

The link for “View all collections” is located in what reads as a, “List of 1 items.” Since there is only one item here, having it sit within a list does not make sense.

On the search results page, the items “Filtering by” and “Start Over” are read in reverse order than what they appear visually. This may lead to confusion is a screen reader user is being given directions by a sighted user.

Our testers noted that the location of the “Limit your search” options (at the bottom of the page) seems counter intuitive, as a user will navigate through all results and information before being able to impose some of these limits. In this case, it may be the intent of the page to apply constraints after a user has had a chance to review available options, thus in that case, this point can be ignored.