[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #23560: Keyboard Accessibility of Add Media Panel

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#23560: Keyboard Accessibility of Add Media Panel
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 Reporter:  grahamarmfield                       |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)                         |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  4.0
Component:  Media                                |     Version:  3.5.1
 Severity:  normal                               |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch needs-testing needs-       |     Focuses:
  refresh                                        |  accessibility
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Comment (by sharonaustin):

 Stunning work by the developers.  A huge, huge thanks for the incredible
 work they've done with this.

 Latest test was performed using a version of trunk 18512 using the
 instructions found here:
 http://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/installing-wordpress-locally
 /installing-via-svn/
 The files were uploaded to this location, where testing took place using
 NVDA 2013.3 on a Windows machine using Chrome.
 http://red-hound.com/tic23560/

 There was nothing that was not available to me via keyboard.  This is a
 major, huge improvement over previous versions.

 One "headache" was the Add Media feature.  It's a modal, and at least in
 my testing, when trying to add images while looking at the modal screen
 for Add Media, NVDA would read all of the links in the "background" for
 the post before reading aloud anything in the Add Media screen.   Is it
 possible to somehow keep focus within the modal when one is working with
 it?
 (Not that we are unappreciative of the improvements made to date...that
 the Add Media screen works is a major accomplishment! Thank you!)


 While everything is accessible by keyboard, not everything is announced.
 For example, before even logging in, just reading the splash page of the
 test site, one is taken through various lists on the sidebar, but there is
 no announcement as to what those lists are other than "complimentary
 landmark heading" (instead of, for example, "Recent Comments", "Archives"
 or "Meta").   Another example: While in the "Edit Image" modal of the "Add
 Media" pane, I was able to navigate by keyboard to the "Image Crop" link,
 and it was announced as a "link" in NVDA, but there was no indication as
 to what that link was.

 As I see it, the major issues for improvement to date are: keeping focus
 within modals while working inside of them, and adding labels to links so
 that screen readers can announce what the links actually are.  Most of the
 links are labeled, (and therefore announced by NVDA), so I personally
 would not consider these issues showstoppers.

 Thanks again for such terrific work by all the developers.

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