Lack of interest Improve Accessibility

[briansol]

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There are many minor errors that could be cleaned up in a template fix. Would like to see these improved in a future release.

 

[Paul B]

The first one - Ensure images provide informative alternative text - is completely out of the control of XF.
It's whatever file name the poster chooses.

As for this - Ensure links or controls that open new windows or frames do not open without a warning - that would get really annoying, really quickly, so it's a no from me.

 

[briansol]

1) yes, but it's not 'easy' or in the know to even set an alt text. changing the editor to prompt for alt text could help, with fallback to the image's name as a default.

2) It's annoying to you because you can see, but other's can't. There's certainly a way to do it without being annoying like facebook or your bank does when you leave the main site, adding the screen reader icons like

<a href="http://www.google.com/" target="_blank">Google <span class="sr-only">Opens in new window</span><i aria-hidden="true" class="fa fa-edit fa-external-link"></i></a>

can help