Bug 4959 – screen reader reads contents of entire form

Bug 4959 - screen reader reads contents of entire form

Summary:

screen reader reads contents of entire form

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	Validator
Component:	Website
Version:	HEAD
Platform:	PC Windows XP

Importance:	P1 normal (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
QA Contact:	qa-dev tracking

URL:	http://validator.w3.org
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Reported:	2007-08-19 04:32 UTC by Gregory J. Rosmaita
Modified:	2008-12-01 03:03 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Gregory J. Rosmaita 2007-08-19 04:32:35 UTC

when accessing the validator using a screen reader (JAWS for Windows), the
entire form, including the "hidden" "More Options" are included in JAWS' List
of Form Controls, and are still in the tab-navigation order of the form (one
has to tab through all of the "Advanced" options in order to reach the submit
button.

also, this form which i am currently filling out
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/enter_bug.cgi?product=Validator
needs to have the labels for the form controls explicitly bound to the form
controls, using the for/id relationship defined for the LABEL element; without
such an explicit binding, it is difficult to tell with accuracy what the
purpose of the form control one has tabbed to

consult: http://www.w3.org/WAI/Resources

Comment 1 Olivier Thereaux 2007-08-21 01:43:19 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> when accessing the validator using a screen reader (JAWS for Windows), the
> entire form, including the "hidden" "More Options" are included in JAWS' List
> of Form Controls, 

I am unsure what the issue is here. I would expect that being able to access
all the form controls (which are properly labeled) would be a feature, not a
bug.

> and are still in the tab-navigation order of the form (one
> has to tab through all of the "Advanced" options in order to reach the submit
> button.

Understood. Would you have a suggestion to make for a better behavior, or a
patch for:
http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/validator/
?


> also, this form which i am currently filling out
> http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/enter_bug.cgi?product=Validator
> needs to have the labels for the form controls explicitly bound to the form
> controls, using the for/id relationship defined for the LABEL element; without
> such an explicit binding, it is difficult to tell with accuracy what the
> purpose of the form control one has tabbed to

We are planning to upgrade our instance of bugzilla to the latest release,
hopefully form labeling will be better.
I see there is also current work on improving the forms in bugzilla, so there
is hope:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=374020
In any case, issues with bugzilla are better reported to bugzilla development
team rather than here.

Comment 2 Olivier Thereaux 2007-09-11 06:56:50 UTC

Fix courtesy of Patrick H. Lauke and the participants to this mail thread:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2007Aug/thread.html#msg153