Bug#856282: ARIA should be used to communicate the status of collapsable content under the Action Needed heading to assistive technologies
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Hello,
On Mon, 27 Feb 2017 08:22:52 -0500 am_dxer@fastmail.fm wrote:
> Currently, when selecting the Toggle Details buttons with a screen
> reader like gnome-orca, nothing is spoken as the content after these
> buttons in the DOM expands or collapses. I suggest adding the
> aria-expanded attribute to all of these buttons. All of the collapsed
> elements should be set to aria-expanded="false" and all of the expanded
> elements should be set to aria-expanded="true". When the button is
> selected by the user, the state of the aria-expanded attribute should be
> changed as the content expands or collapses. This will cause the correct
> expanded and collapsed notifications to be fired to assistive
> technologies by web browsers.
In the mean time, we changed the rendering of those action items
to use the <details> tag which is standard HTML5. Is something like
this still required?
I would expect standard HTML to be friendly with screen readers and
other assistive tools. But I might be wrong.
Cheers,
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