Opened 6 years ago
Last modified 6 years ago
#9629 open bug
Button: checkboxes get duplicate announcements on screen readers
| Reported by: | dylanb | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | none |
| Component: | ui.button | Version: | 1.10.3 |
| Keywords: | a11y | Cc: | |
| Blocked by: | Blocking: |
Description
When using DOM navigation, both the button and the checkbox for each element are available to the screen reader, leading to confusion as to what is going on.
Best approach to fixing these would be to get rid of the fake button role and set aria-hidden="true" on these visible elements to take them out of the screen reader's visibility
Change History (2)
comment:1 Changed 6 years ago by
| Keywords: | a11y added |
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| Status: | new → open |
| Summary: | UI button: checkboxes not screen reader accessible → Button: checkboxes get duplicate announcements on screen readers |
comment:2 Changed 6 years ago by
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Actually, I am going to revise my recommendation here based on the fact that the element in question is the label of the checkbox. You cannot set it to aria-hidden="true", you will either have to hide the input elements and implement role=checkbox and associated attributes on the label elements and track the status in the hidden inputs, or you will have to simply leave the labels as label elements and allow the user to continue to interact with the checkboxes