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Opened 9 years ago

Last modified 5 years ago

#32892 assigned defect (bug)

List table: Select %s shouldn't be a row header

Reported by: afercia's profile afercia Owned by:
Milestone: Future Release Priority: normal
Severity: normal Version: 4.2
Component: Administration Keywords: needs-patch
Focuses: ui, accessibility Cc:

Description

See related #31654 and #26167.

In all the List Tables in the admin, the "Select %s" (where %s is the name of the Post, Attachment, Plugin, User, etc,) is used as row header:

<th scope="row" class="check-column">

This is not correct from a semantics and accessibility point of view for all the reasons mentioned in #31654. The row header should be the cell with the main object the table refers to: the Post title, the Plugin name, etc.

We could also consider to use the abbr attribute: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/tabular-data.html#attr-th-abbr
that would be consistent with what is currently proposed in sortable column headers ticket

Change History (4)

#1 @afercia
9 years ago

  • Owner set to afercia
  • Status changed from new to assigned

#2 @afercia
8 years ago

  • Keywords 4.4-early removed

One more good reason to address this issue is that, when a post is locked and the lock icon appears, the icon has no label or text that can be announced so screen readers will read out the column header "Select All";

https://cldup.com/KBazRCctl3.png

This ticket was mentioned in Slack in #accessibility by afercia. View the logs.


7 years ago

#4 @afercia
5 years ago

  • Owner afercia deleted
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