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Profile builder and screen readers and keyboard nav #59

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indigoxela opened this issue Dec 8, 2023 · 1 comment · Fixed by #67
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Profile builder and screen readers and keyboard nav #59

indigoxela opened this issue Dec 8, 2023 · 1 comment · Fixed by #67

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indigoxela commented Dec 8, 2023

Currently the builder form uses arrow keys for reordering.

While this works fine for sighted (without mouse), it's hard for people using screen readers, as the arrow keys seem to have a reserved purpose - to navigate on the page.

Think this over for better accessibility.

And the help text for keyboard handling currently isn't visible, which might also be a problem for sighted, who prefer keyboard handling and also for translators.

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So the arrow key might still works for screen reader users. It's a form and it's declared as "application", with an aria-described-by.

Unfortunately I have no idea, how screen readers behave with that combo. Read quite some different infos, now I'm even more confused.

I belief, putting the keyboard navigation help in a visible details element (makes info also available for the sighted), things are slightly clearer. But I'm prepared to revisit this all, if someone familiar with NVDA or JAWS chimes in and helps me to understand.

@indigoxela indigoxela changed the title Profile builder and screen readers Profile builder and screen readers and keyboard nav Dec 17, 2023
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