#57222 closed defect (bug) (fixed)
Improve Supported Versions table accessibility in `SECURITY.md`
Reported by: | audrasjb | Owned by: | peterwilsoncc |
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Milestone: | 6.2 | Priority: | normal |
Severity: | normal | Version: | |
Component: | Security | Keywords: | has-patch |
Focuses: | accessibility, docs | Cc: |
Description (last modified by )
In SECURITY.md, the list of supported versions uses emojis to indicate whether a branch is supported or not. For better accessibility, it would be nice to add some text to complete the image representation with a text.
I propose to just add "Yes" or "No" after the emoji so we have both a visual representation and a simple, clear text.
Change History (10)
This ticket was mentioned in PR #3694 on WordPress/wordpress-develop by @audrasjb.
2 years ago
#3
- Keywords has-patch added
@peterwilsoncc commented on PR #3694:
2 years ago
#4
This looks good to me.
In your experience do you know if emoji are problematic for screen readers? The question behind the question is will screen reader users hear the first row as "six point one point ex white check mark yes"?
If a simple "yes" will be better for accessibility, I am happy to just go with that.
@audrasjb commented on PR #3694:
2 years ago
#5
Good question @peterwilsoncc :)
It seems that assistive technologies will restitute ✅ as "White Heavy Check Mark".
The recommendation is to avoid using emojis as a replacement for text.
But it's also recommended to place the textual information before the emoji…
Shouldn't we completely remove the emojis from this documentation?
@peterwilsoncc commented on PR #3694:
2 years ago
#6
Shouldn't we completely remove the emojis from this documentation?
Yeah, let's do that. It's unambiguously accessible.
@audrasjb commented on PR #3694:
2 years ago
#7
@peterwilsoncc I replaced all emojis with plain text words. Really, I think it doesn't hurt :)
#9
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2 years ago
- Owner set to peterwilsoncc
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from new to closed
In 54919:
Note: This is a follow-up to a quick conversation with @peterwilsoncc on this PR: https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/3692#pullrequestreview-1195408087