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Datatables for React using Material-UI
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Improve accessibility on sortable table #1959

Open supakitk opened 2 years ago

supakitk commented 2 years ago

We got a feedback from our accessibility team that the there is an issue that user can't navigate with voice over after sorting. "After sorting the table, pressing the arrow down key should move focus to the next cell to the right, in the table. Currently, nothing is announced"

Expected Behavior

He provides example of accessible sortable table to compare at https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/example-index/table/sortable-table

Current Behavior

Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)

Your Environment

Tech Version
Material-UI 5.10.10
MUI-datatables 4.2.2
React 18.2 ( React is internally using v17 for our code since we haven't changed anything to use anything from 18, so 17.x)
browser Chrome, Safari (Voice Over)