accessibility and user lists

5 years 10 months ago #304803 by michwebdev
accessibility and user lists was created by michwebdev
Hi,

In trying to make our sites more accessible to screen readers, we noticed that Community Builder lists are made up of multiple divs rather than lists. From the front end, they appear to tables which looks really good, but they aren't tables either.

Also, it was pointed out to us that names (and other fields) should probably have the option to apply headers so that a screen reader can come up with a more structured summary of the page. I have looked at options in List Management but do not see any option there to add a header (h2, h3...). I realize this could be done using a field that is a text editor area, but we don't want users formatting fields on their own.

Is there any plan to take a look into accessibility issues? I am not sure of what exactly to suggest except for to try using a screen reader to interpret a list of people.

I apologize if this was covered somewhere else. I did some searching but couldn't find a related discussion.

Thank you for your time!

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5 years 10 months ago #304822 by krileon
Replied by krileon on topic accessibility and user lists

I have looked at options in List Management but do not see any option there to add a header (h2, h3...).

This will be fixed in our Bootstrap 4 upgrade where each of the headers has an appropriate h3 tag on any page with a header title. Believe you can enforce this from Joomla it self using menu parameters though depending on your Joomla template used. If you're talking about the column headers no those won't have a header tag as they've been fixed with the appropriate role attribute.

I realize this could be done using a field that is a text editor area, but we don't want users formatting fields on their own.


Is there any plan to take a look into accessibility issues?

Yes, we intend to completely redesign our userlists at some point. Just no idea when. Everything else we try to maintain role and aria attributes where necessary as best as possible. We can't really guarantee screen reader compatibility though given there's so many. Admittedly accessibility checks for the blind are not something I perform as I simply don't have the time.


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