Edit-Toolbar not accessible to screen readers
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	daniel
	Jul 29 2010, 3:41 PM

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Alt-Text for edit-buttons are read without spacing between them, they get jammed together. Some are not recognized at all. It also does not become clear which elements are buittons, which are links, etc.

Blind people would probably not bother with toolbars anyway and use wikitext directly, but they should be able to explore the functionality and find their way around.

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: 1.17.x
Severity: enhancement

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Reference: bz24592

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 11:09 PM

• bzimport added projects: MediaWiki-User-Interface, Accessibility.

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daniel created this task.Jul 29 2010, 3:41 PM

mhershberger wrote:

Unassigning default assignments. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/54734

This could be improved relatively easily by using fullstops in the labels right ?

Change 79639 had a related patch set uploaded by Hoo man:
Make edit toolbar accessible to screen readers

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/79639

Change 79639 merged by jenkins-bot:
Make edit toolbar accessible to screen readers

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/79639

As far as I can tell the linked patch fixed this specific bug (although this certainly still could be better)

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