Bug 362369

Summary:

[Accessibility] Search this topic hover over box in TOC does not contain alt text and violates w3c guidelines.

Product:

[Eclipse Project] Platform

Reporter:

Neal Timpe <natimpe>

Component:

User Assistance

Assignee:

Steve Francisco <stephen.francisco>

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

QA Contact:

Severity:

normal

Priority:

CC:

ChrisAustin, pwebster, remy.suen, stephen.francisco

Version:

4.2

Keywords:

accessibility

Target Milestone:

3.8 M4

Flags:

ChrisAustin: review+

Hardware:

All

OS:

All

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
patch to add 'title' attribute to anchor for menu text	ChrisAustin: iplog+

Description Neal Timpe

2011-10-28 16:38:16 EDT

Build Identifier: 3.1 and 3.6

The Javascript hyperlinks in the search and print table in the TOC do not contain alt text adn violate 1.1a, 2.4f, and 4.1b in the w3c checklist.

These elements are flagged as violations in this code sample: 
a, id="hideanchor", href="javascript:void window.location.reload();"

<tr>
<td id="lsubTopicsSearch" class="tdright" height="27" bgcolor="#c0c0c0" align="center" width="25"> &nbsp; </td>
<td id="psubTopicsSearch" nowrap="" onmouseover="highlightitem(this)">
<font size="-1">
</font>
<label id="searchLabela" accesskey="h" for="hideanchor"></label>
<a id="hideanchor" href="javascript:void window.location.reload();"> </a>

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open an eclipse page
2. Use Firebut to focus on the code in the TOC when the search and print table
pops up.

Comment 1 Paul Webster

2011-11-03 06:56:26 EDT

Please provide a link to the checklist.

PW

Comment 2 Neal Timpe

2011-11-08 09:31:28 EST

https://idoc2.swg.usma.ibm.com/lotuslive/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.lotuslive.activities.doc/r_oa_c_getting_started.html

Checklist
1.1a
http://w3-03.ibm.com/able/devtest/webimages.html

2.4f
http://w3-03.ibm.com/able/devtest/weblinkpurpose.html

4.1b
http://w3-03.ibm.com/able/devtest/webprogrammaticui.html

Comment 3 Steve Francisco

2011-11-09 19:53:35 EST

Created attachment 206746 [details]
patch to add 'title' attribute to anchor for menu text

Comment 4 Steve Francisco

2011-11-10 16:39:10 EST

patch ready for review.  Anchor objects don't have an alt attribute but the 'title' attribute does cause hover text to appear.

Comment 5 Chris Austin

2011-11-11 12:56:52 EST

Patch looks good.

Patch committed to master.