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Search suggestions: Arrow+down not announced in screen reader, often speaks results of one letter less
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Description

The suggestions shown under the search field are not accessible via the screen reader. It's not announced, and it does not get read. Ideally, when a term is entered, the screen reader should announce that a list of suggestions is available, and give the user some hint as to how to navigate there (down-arrow works, tab closes the suggestion box and moves the focus away from the search field).

This report results from feedback from the German Central Library for the Blind
(DZB). Please see
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Accessibility#Feedback_from_the_DZB.2C_July_2010
for some background.


Version: 1.22.0
Severity: minor

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 11:09 PM
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Testing with Firefox 18 and Orca Screenreader 3.2 on Fedora, the search proposals in the search field in the upper right corner on the frontpage of en.wikipedia.org *are* read aloud, so the most important part of this report is fixed. But:

  • there is no hint to use arrow-down
  • sometimes results from one letter less are read aloud so the audio output is not in sync with the visual output.
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