1217401 - [Accessibility] Homescreen panel indicator is not accessible

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::Homescreen, defect)

Description

[Chris Lord [:cwiiis]]

[Blocking Requested - why for this release]: Core application with poor accessibility

Yura Zenevich [:yzen]:

"Dotted page indicators are inaccessible to screen reader. They need to have slider semantics with min max and current values clearly indicated."

[...]"the way platform a11y works is that it will not be landing (ignores) on generic elements (without any semantics) even if they have labels. By such elements I mean divs and spans. The screen reader user can already scroll (with 2 fingers) right and left between the pages however there's no way for them to discover that there are more than one. I suggest in this case that doing something similar to the very original home screen would be very beneficial to the SR user:

https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/blob/v2.0/apps/homescreen/index.html#L76-L78
https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/blob/v2.0/apps/homescreen/js/pagbar.js#L44-L45"

Comment 1

[GitHub Autolander Bot]

Attachment: [gaia] Cwiiis:bug1217401-homescreen-a11y-pages-indicator > mozilla-b2g:master

Comment 2

[Chris Lord [:cwiiis]]

Comment on attachment 8677484 [details] [review]
[gaia] Cwiiis:bug1217401-homescreen-a11y-pages-indicator > mozilla-b2g:master

This wraps the panel indicator in a header (which is where the aria label is now set) and adds a slider role to the panel indicator, as well as keyboard input, matching original horizontally paged homescreen.

Comment 3

[Guillaume Marty [:gmarty]]

Comment on attachment 8677484 [details] [review]
[gaia] Cwiiis:bug1217401-homescreen-a11y-pages-indicator > mozilla-b2g:master

Approved!

Comment 4

[Chris Lord [:cwiiis]]

Thanks, merged: https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/commit/063bc774d6396f834932c68174bf579cff925214