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Sympa Accessibility Issue - 7 - LABEL element does not allow the implicit role of the element to be changed #1765

Closed rm1-uiuc closed 4 months ago

rm1-uiuc commented 7 months ago

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Technology Services Accessibility Testing team conducted an Accessibility Review of Sympa on September 25, 2023 and found 26 issues that need to be fixed to make the interface accessible for visual impaired users.

Version

6.2.72

Installation method

Source Package

Expected behavior

Role is not allowed. Some HTML elements are restricted in the role allowed based on the semantics of the element (e.g. LI elements can only have list related ARIA roles).

Actual behavior

The LABEL element does not allow the implicit role of the element to be changed. This role conflict causes the screen reader to receive confusing and/or conflicting information. Removing the HEADING role from the element will provide more cleaner read by the screen reader.

Steps to reproduce

Sympa Accessibility Issue - 7 - was determined by an Automation Tool Evaluation using AInspector and Siteimprove Accessibility Checkers as automated accessibility evaluation tools.

After running these automation tools the following issue was identified:

Role is not allowed. Some HTML elements are restricted in the role allowed based on the semantics of the element (e.g. LI elements can only have list related ARIA roles). When a role conflicts with the implicit semantics of an HTML element the accessibility API provides confusing and/or conflicting information to screen readers.

In this case, the LABEL element does not allow the implicit role of the element to be changed. Remove the HEADING role from the element.

WCAG Level A 4.1.2 Name, Role, Value (Primary)

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Fig 7 Inconsistent heading structure.

Additional information Attached is the Accessibility Review conducted on Sept 25,2023 Tech Services Review - Accessibility Evaluation Report for Sympa.pdf

ikedas commented 7 months ago

Hi @rm1-uiuc ,

Remove the HEADING role from the element.

What do you mean by this suggestion? After all, How do you think we have to change actual code?

ikedas commented 4 months ago

Is there any further information? If there are no developments, this issue will be closed for the present.