Accessibility for Footnote Block

[creeser]

We tested the new Gutenberg Footnotes Block for accessibility, and the feature works well. However, between the footnotes themselves, the "↩" character is being spoken by the NVDA screen reader as "right arrow curving left" which could be directionally confusing for some assistive technology users, but is also quite a lot for a user to hear for an icon description. Could an aria-label be added instead?

[sabernhardt]

Hi and welcome to WordPress Core Trac!

This bug was reported on GitHub last week (it was labeled enhancement there too):
​https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/54727

I could close this as 'reported-upstream' but for now I'll leave it open here to get more attention. Please continue the conversation on GitHub.

[joedolson]

This is being tracked on Gutenberg, but for visibility I'm milestoning it as a bug fix for 6.4, as well.

[kirasong]

I checked the GitHub issue and it looks like ​this is partially fixed, but awaiting feedback and a PR for the other part.

There is ​a design approach ready for review on the GitHub issue.

I'm going to resolve this as reported-upstream now because 6.4 RC1 is happening shortly.
If it's preferred to continue to track in both places, please feel free to re-open and milestone.

Thanks everyone for your work on this!
As always, please feel free to reopen if there any questions, or I missed anything here.