Ticket #3957 (new defect)

Opened 12 months ago

Last modified 5 months ago

Tooltips do not have ARIA markup

Reported by: guest Owned by: becky
Priority: normal Milestone: 1.3
Component: Accessibility Version: 0.9
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc:

Description

The tooltips do not have ARIA markup. More specifically, wairole="tooltip" should be an included attribute.

Change History

Changed 12 months ago by becky

  • milestone set to 2.0

the tooltips do have an ARIA role of alert. This role is used because it is currently supported by the screen readers. When the tooltip is displayed it gets spoken by the screen reader.

We could use the tooltip role but it would be more difficult to implement. If the tooltip was marked with the role of tooltip, the items which causes the tooltip to get displayed would have to be updated with the describedby property when the tooltip is made visible. We would have to add a unique id to the tooltip text element. This might have implications for our reuse of the same object to implement tooltips.

I moved this to Milestone of 2.0 so we can revisit when better support for tooltip should be available in Firefox 3 and screen readers

Changed 5 months ago by alex

  • milestone changed from 2.0 to 1.3

Milestone 2.0 deleted

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