[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #31090: Menus manage locations form accessibility improvements

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#31090: Menus manage locations form accessibility improvements
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 Reporter:  afercia                |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)           |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                 |   Milestone:  4.2
Component:  Menus                  |     Version:  3.6
 Severity:  normal                 |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch ui-feedback  |     Focuses:  ui, accessibility
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Comment (by afercia):

 @melchoyce
 > Definitely a lot better. Looks great.
 thanks, such a small change :)

 @jorbin
 yup can be confusing at first sight, this technique is already used in the
 admin, for example in the "Publish" postbox:

 {{{
 <a href="#post_status" class="edit-post-status hide-if-no-js">
 <span aria-hidden="true">Edit</span> <span class="screen-reader-text">Edit
 status</span>
 </a>
 }}}

 this way, screen readers will read out "Edit status" and will ignore
 "Edit" which, alone, doesn't give enough context to screen reader users:
 Edit... what? Sighted users have enough information about the link purpose
 thanks to the visual context.

 Back to the `locations-edit-menu-link` specific case:
 * for screen reader users "Edit" ''is always hidden'', regardless the link
 is hidden or not
 - when the link gets visible:
  - screen reader will read out just the "Edit status" part
  - sighted users will see just "Edit"

 http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/states_and_properties#aria-hidden
 "Authors MAY, with caution, use aria-hidden to hide visibly rendered
 content from assistive technologies only if the act of hiding this content
 is intended to improve the experience for users of assistive technologies
 by removing redundant or extraneous content. Authors using aria-hidden to
 hide visible content from screen readers MUST ensure that identical or
 equivalent meaning and functionality is exposed to assistive
 technologies."

 It's also a way to have a fully translatable, clean, string without mixing
 it with HTML. Currently used in Twenty Fifteen too.

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