427263 - All XUL files should be checked for missing attributes for a11y.

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Marco Zehe (:MarcoZ)]

Good candidates to check are:

1. radio groups, textboxes, menu lists, other controls that have a label preceeding them that has no "control=<Control's ID>" attribute.
2. For those controls that have a label preceeding and following them, give both labels an ID, and put an aria-labelledby="preceedinglabelID controlsLabelID followingLabelID" attribute on the control. That way, the construct like "Delete history after 9 days" will be exposed to screen readers, giving more contextual information than only the single preceeding label would.

Comment 1

[Aaron Leventhal]

XUL authoring guidelines:
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XUL_accessibility_guidelines

It would be great to have a general tool for this, and build it into one of the popular dev tools, DOM Inspector, or whatever. Also, Mark Finkle started working on a XUL validator.

Comment 2

[Robert Kaiser]

This bug is open but targeted for seamonkey2.0a1, which has been released a long time ago. Please set the target milestone to an appropriate value, "---" if it has no specific target.

Comment 3

[Marco Zehe (:MarcoZ)]

Not sure this is still relevant, since a long time has passed since then. Closing as INACTIVE.