Accessibility: The 5 Minute Warning Modal jQuery Dialog Message Is Not Accessible
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Anthony Whyte March 22, 2013 at 2:45 PMEdited
Merged 2.9.x r121662. Also fixed bad commit message:
svn propset --revprop -r 121662 svn:log "SAM-1296 merge trunk r121662"
property 'svn:log' set on repository revision 121662
iupui1 March 19, 2013 at 3:03 PM
verified with Voiceover OSX 10.7 Safari 6.0.2, JAWS 13 & JAWS 14 on IE9 and Firefox 19, and NVDA on IE 9 & Firefox 19 on sakai/trunk on Oracle - Built: 03/19/13 12:00 - Sakai Revision: 121450 (Kernel 1.4.0-SNAPSHOT)- Server sakai-nightly.uits.iupui.edu
Jacqueline Mai March 14, 2013 at 1:22 PM
Dialog message says
You have 5 minutes left. Press 'Esc' to return to your assessment.
Would be nice to revise message for mobile phone users"
You have 5 minutes left. Press 'Esc' or click "X" to return to your assessment.
iupui1 March 13, 2013 at 11:14 AM
Thankx for your work on this patch Paul
Sam Ottenhoff March 12, 2013 at 5:11 PM
Trunk commit r121087
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Created July 23, 2011 at 6:54 PM
Updated June 14, 2018 at 12:49 PM
Resolved March 12, 2013 at 5:11 PM
The 5 minutes left jQuery Modal dialog warning is not accessible to keyboard only users. Using the JAWS 12 screen-reader (latest as of 7/2011) and IE or Firefox, when the dialog box appears the screen-reading software simply announces "Application Mode" and the screen-reader user no longer can navigate the page, isn't aware that a modal dialog box has appeared, the message isn't announced (and the screen-reader user can't navigate to it), also they probably won't know to press escape to close the dialog box.
Keyboard only users can't navigate the controls of the dialog box either and aren't told in the message that pressing escape is the only way they have to close the dialog box.
Suggested fix:
1. Include a statement in the message text that the dialog can be closed by pressing escape.
2. Find a more accessible version of the jQuery modal dialog box.