[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #32147: List table: headings for pagination and views links

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#32147: List table: headings for pagination and views links
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 Reporter:  afercia         |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)    |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Administration  |     Version:  4.2
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch       |     Focuses:  ui, accessibility
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Comment (by rianrietveld):

 Patch 32147.patch was tested by the wpa11y test team.

 Testers: Tobias Clemens Häcker, Geof Collis, Gabriela Nino de Rivera
 Torres, Shaun Everiss, Kim van Iersel, Michelle DeYoung

 Questions to the team:

 '''1: Do you find the extra headings useful?'''

 Gabriela: I guess the extra information could be useful. VoiceOver and
 NVDA offer a way to navigate between headers in a page. The extra headers,
 if used correctly, could help the user to find easily a zone or section
 inside a page. For example, the user makes a plugin search, she open the
 header menu (in VoiceOver) or uses H or other command (NVDA) to navigate
 to the header for the results navigation or to the header placed before
 the results.
 The user did not find what she is looking for, she open the header menu
 and select the header search to navigate to the search form. And more or
 less that's the idea. A easy way to move from a zone or section in a page.

 Geof: I liked the new headings though, very useful.

 '''Are the headings text clear to you?'''

 Gabriela: Not always. In pages were results are display in a table, the
 navigation options are available before the table and after the table. But
 the two headers text are the same, for example: comments navigation. I see
 on the headers menu, two h2 comments navigation which is confusing. If we
 could say: top comments navigation and bottom comments navigation to give
 a better idea where are they in the page.
 Others headers are kind of clear, for example: "Filter comments to
 display" it could be rephrased like "Options to filter comments".

 Comment Shaun: I found all the level2 headings I noticed on the   page
 there were 2 level 2 headings that said the same things, that of
 multimedia items or something like that.

 Comment Geof: Noticed I am getting 2 'post navigation' headings, each one
 is different in its layout though, planned? I would think that I should be
 able to select which one I want.
 I also changed the number of posts to show and the post navigation
 headings disappeared.

 Comment Michelle:
 * About "Posts navigation": Perhaps change to something like "Navigation
 for posts displayed in table" or "Pagination for posts displayed in
 table."
 * About  "Media items navigation": Perhaps change to something like
 "Navigation for Media items displayed in table" or "Pagination for Media
 items displayed in table."
 * About "Plugins navigation": Perhaps change to something like "Navigation
 for plugins displayed in table" or "Pagination for plugins displayed in
 table."

 '''3: What extra headings would you like?'''

 Have headers that make easy for the user to move inside the main content.

 '''4: Which heading is not necessary?'''

 All are useful


 '''Results per screen reader:'''

 * Safari + VoiceOVer: works
 * NVDA + Windows + FireFox: works
 * Jaws: works
 * ChromeVox: Probably depending on the settings it works or not

 Tobias: ChromeVox doesn't select (and read) the new (invisible) headings:
 Heading level 2 Filter posts to display
 Heading level 2 Posts navigation
 Heading level 2 Posts navigation

 Michelle: Headings in ChromeVox work.

 Comment by @afracia: ChromeVox: has some quircks... I need to go first to
 the Main Content and then focus the "Help" tab and then it correctly reads
 out the new headings. I fear we can't do much to fix this, looks like a
 ChromeVox specific issue.
 Comment by Tobias: How about sending our feedback to the developers of
 ChromeVox, too?

 '''Conclusions'''

 * The extra headings are useful
 * They work in the tested screen readers, only ChromeVox has some issues
 probably depending on user settings
 * Two H2's like comments navigation are confusing. Change that into top
 comments navigation and bottom comments navigation to give a better idea
 where are they in the page

 Suggestion for a better headings text:
 * Change for example "Post navigation" into "Navigation for posts
 displayed in table"
 * "Filter comments to display" it could be rephrased like "Options to
 filter comments"

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