Bug 368877 - Status Messages cannot be read by screen reader
Summary: Status Messages cannot be read by screen reader
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Orion (Archived)
Classification: ECD
Component: Client (show other bugs)
Version: 0.4   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: 0.4 RC1   Edit
Assignee: Susan McCourt CLA
QA Contact: Carolyn MacLeod CLA
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Keywords: accessibility
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Blocks: 365361
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Reported: 2012-01-17 15:30 EST by Max Li CLA
Modified: 2012-02-10 13:05 EST (History)
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Description Max Li CLA 2012-01-17 15:30:12 EST
The status messages on the top left of the screen (e.g. when editing a site, the Save and Start/Stop links generate these sort of messages) are relatively inaccessible. The screen reader cannot read them (or perhaps they are very far away in the tab order) and they disappear quickly so that it is hard to know that the messages were even there.
Comment 1 Max Li CLA 2012-01-19 10:38:04 EST
I have fixed this bug in the following repository in the accessibility branch.
https://github.com/max-li/orion.client.git
Comment 2 Susan McCourt CLA 2012-01-24 11:26:08 EST
I can look at this but the link 404s
Comment 4 Susan McCourt CLA 2012-01-24 19:39:46 EST
I'm not sure how to test that the problem is fixed.
Note the status messages have moved to the bottom (and probably will move again in the next couple of days).  So I merged the commit by hand and tried the change.  However I can't test that it works because I can't tab out of the editor.

I suggest we hold off on fixing this one until we get a stable place for the status message, and then you can submit a fix that is up to date with the latest.
Comment 5 Susan McCourt CLA 2012-02-07 11:22:59 EST
pushed a fix.
Thanks, Max, and sorry it took so long.

Note the notifications area is now a div, not a span.
I assumed that the original fix would still work based on our previous discussions.

Max, can you confirm that this is fixed?
Comment 6 Max Li CLA 2012-02-07 13:10:18 EST
This has been fixed.