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Accessibility Problem on Media, Location and Fonts combobox #1369

Open legle opened 6 years ago

legle commented 6 years ago

Hello,

I am a blind user of the webtrees and I am not able to work with the combo box to select the images, locations and fonts and all the similar operating combobox.

I have already tried to select using the following combinations of screen readers and browsers:

• JAWS and Internet Explorer; • JAWS and Google Chrome; • NVDA and Internet Explorer; • NVDA and Google Chrome; • Voice Over and Safari on IPhone; • Talkback and Chrome on Android;

At the moment I can not work with these controls.

Is there any way you can help me with this?

fisharebest commented 6 years ago

Is this webtrees version 1.7.9 or webtrees version 2.0.0-dev?

Fixing accessibility issues is a high priority.

My employer has a well-equipped laboratory for accessibility testing, so I have access to JAWS, NVDA, etc. But I do not always have enough time to use it.

legle commented 6 years ago

My version of webtrees is 2.0.0-dev and I'm upgrading from the git repository.

The webtrees do not have many accessibility issues, but this particular problem should be fixed as soon as possible.

Sorry for my english, I'm using google translator, if you have trouble understanding what I say, please let me know.

fisharebest commented 6 years ago

We use a libarary called "select2" for these combo boxes.

The issue tracker for select2 lists many accessibility issues that have been open for a long time.

I will investigate other libraries. One possibility is called "chosen". It has a demo page (https://harvesthq.github.io/chosen/).

Can you visit this page and tell me if it works OK with JAWS/NVDA/etc.

fisharebest commented 6 years ago

The twitter/typeahead/bloudhound looks interesting, but I think the project was abandoned.

I have some colleagues that specialize in accessibility. I will ask them.

legle commented 6 years ago

JAWS and NVDA can read these components, I can use the filter and I can select the combo box items.

In some cases I do not know if it was working correctly, but overall this plug-in seems to work.

works better than what works on webtrees today, but I noticed some problems:

In multiple choice fields I can not see what is selected; In the fields where the item changes sideways I do not know if the item was added because this is not shown.

There are not many problems with this component. His developer could use a bit more aria-selected and other aria attributes, but for the time being it is better.

legle commented 6 years ago

Hello,

The componente used on webtrees 1.7.9 whorks with JAWS and NVDA.

The Webtrees 2.0 only run on php 7?

fisharebest commented 6 years ago

I can use JAWS and NVDA at work. But work is very busy, and I have not had time. I expect to have time for this towards the end of December.

webtrees 2.0 requires PHP 7.0 or higher.

fisharebest commented 6 years ago

There are three libraries available for this function: chosen, select2 and selectize.

All three project are semi-abandoned. There is a discussion here.

Chosen does not support remote data sources or mobile.

Selectize claims to work with a keyboard. Need to investigate it.

fisharebest commented 6 years ago

Selectize has an open issue regarding lack of support for NVDA/JAWS https://github.com/selectize/selectize.js/issues/798