Re: JAWS lists and modal windows

Sorry Leonie! Credit where credit is due for the bug reference!

On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 2:12 PM Mike Cleary <mike.cleary@grantsolutions.gov>
wrote:

> I agree that we are probably weighing down some of our modals with too
> much information. But one reason we're using modals is because the test
> team didn't think our tooltips were accessible enough. They were holding us
> to a WCAG 2.1 standard, although I don't think they realized it.
> Our test team tends to take a hardline, letter of the law interpretation.
> To them, all 508 bugs are critical.
> Thanks Lucy for the tip about the bug; we'll definitely check that out.
> Mike
>
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 1:53 PM Léonie Watson <lwatson@tetralogical.com>
> wrote:
>
>> It appears to be a Jaws specific bug, confirmed using this test case
>> from Scott O'Hara:
>> https://scottaohara.github.io/testing/html-dialog/tos-dialog.html
>>
>> As a rule I advise against trying to fix bugs in individual assistive
>> tech, especially (as with this case) when the result is non-critical. It
>> almost always makes the code more complex and consequently more brittle.
>>
>> I do think your assertion that screen reader users are unlikely to use
>> this functionality in dialogs might be true though. Certainly, it's not
>> a thing I ever recall trying to do - though I'm only a sample of one of
>> course!
>>
>> Léonie.
>>
>> On 29/03/2022 17:18, Mike Cleary wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> > We are frequently getting bug reports when using JAWS lists of headings
>> > or links to access the contents of open modal windows. In particular,
>> > when selecting a header on a modal, navigation on the modal tends to
>> > skip over a few elements.
>> >
>> > I think it unlikely that someone will open a JAWS list after opening a
>> > modal window, but our test team won't budge (and maybe I misjudge JAWS
>> > users), so we're looking for a fix.
>> >
>> > Any advice about how we can address this issue? or comment about the
>> > interaction of JAWS lists and modals in general?
>> >
>> > Mike
>> >
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