Re: [orca-list] Orca doesn't announce heading despite I can navigate by heading

[Peter Vágner <pvagner pvagner tk>]

Hello,

It is difficult to decide what's most significant issue affecting this.
I do have a few points to think about:
* There is a list of articles with headings, image figures, short 
excerpts and some other meta data such as categories, time posted and 
similar.
* The experience for sighted readers is that they are attracted by the 
image figures, they can see the excerpt and they can hover the heading 
link to see the title.
* So from screen reader user's point of view before considering 
accessibility there are two focusable links pointing to the same target 
(full article) the first one has no text but a title that translates to 
accessible description and the second one has unlabelled image.
* When thinking on how to make this more accessible there are multiple 
options with its pros and cons.
* The site authors opted to use aria-label on the first link which makes 
the link somewhat accessible but causes the parent heading not to be 
reported and aria-label don't allow screen reader users to navigate over 
the text thus making both links be presented as one character long nodes.
I don't know if this is a bug or where the problem might be but removing 
the aria-label makes the heading reported correctly. It can even be 
navigated through. I guess they wanted to override the text for some 
links for screen reader users so it's why they have added aria-label. 
For complementing what's already accessible adding textual element such 
as <span /> and styling it so it's rendered outside the viewport would 
be more powerfull I'd say.

Let's see if there is a way on how to work this around.

Greetings

Peter



Dňa 29.05.2018 o 13:40 Joanmarie Diggs napísal(a):
> I'll take a look. Thanks for the report!
> --joanie
>
> On 05/29/2018 07:32 AM, Alex ARNAUD wrote:
> > Just a mistake on the subject, it's Orca doesn't announce heading
> > despite I can navigate by heading
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Alex.
> >
> > Le 29/05/2018 à 11:44, Alex ARNAUD a écrit :
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > Environment:
> > > - Debian Sid
> > > - Firefox 60
> > > - Orca master
> > >
> > > Steps to reproduce:
> > > 1) Open http://www.lefigaro.fr/
> > > 2) Press the key to navigate to the next heading
> > >
> > > Result: Orca announces the title followed by link
> > >
> > > Expected result: Orca should announce the title followed by link
> > > followed by the header level
> > >
> > > Best regards.
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