[Components and pattern standards] Design components and patterns in use are outdated. (04.08.1)

General Information

VFS team name

Benefits Disability Experience Team

VFS product name

Disability Comp Application (21-526 EZ), Add Self Assessment Part A form information to BDD workflow

VFS feature name

Add Self Assessment Part A form information to BDD workflow

Point of Contact/Reviewers

Allison Christman - @allison0034 - Design Brian DeConinck - @briandeconinck - Accessibility

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Platform Issue

Design components and patterns in use are outdated.

Issue Details

The "Is this the form I need?" page is using conditional logic to display a wizard. The wizard is deprecated.

The "Supporting evidence" page is using conditional logic to display a wizard. The wizard is deprecated.

The wizard pattern is particularly challenging for assistive technology users, especially screen reader users. As currently coded, the start page wizard doesn't announce to screen reader users its determination of what form to use. Right now screen reader users would have to hunt around to find that text.

Link, screenshot or steps to recreate

https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/va.gov-team/blob/master/platform/working-with-vsp/vsp-collaboration-cycle/staging-review-images/56612-Allison-040801.png https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/va.gov-team/blob/master/platform/working-with-vsp/vsp-collaboration-cycle/staging-review-images/56612-Allison0949891-2.png

VA.gov Experience Standard

Category Number 04, Issue Number 08

Other References

WCAG SC 3.2.4 AA

Platform Recommendation

Go to 1 question per page instead of displaying additional questions on a single page based on the answer.

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department-of-veterans-affairs / va.gov-team