Sakai 2.8 Home Firefox Accessibility Toolbars Protocol Results

Browser/OS Used:

Firefox 3.6.12, Windows 7

Sakai Tool:

Chat

Page(s) Tested:

We did not drill down into the individual tools.

Date:

13.December.2010

QA Server:

Qa1-nl

Links

Multiple non-unique "Options" link texts appear (one for each tool displayed in the window).

Assistive technology has the ability to provide users with a list of links that are on the Web page. Link text that is as meaningful as possible will aid users who want to choose from this list of links. Meaningful link text also helps those who wish to tab from link to link as the link text is all that is read by adaptive technologies in that case. Meaningful link text helps users choose which links to follow without requiring complicated strategies to understand the page. The title attribute is not read by default, and the contents of the title attribute is not added to the information available in the list of links dialog boxes. 

A best practice is to provide link text that identifies the purpose of the link without needing additional context. Our suggestion is to add contextual text to the options links by way of appending the tool's name. This can be done with span tags around the additional text so that it does not appear on the screen.
For instance, this:

<a onclick="..." title="Message of the Day Options" href="#">
Options</a>

becomes this:

<a onclick="..." title="Message of the Day Options" href="#">
Options<span class="skip"> Message of the Day</span></a>

and the on-screen appearance is unchanged.

Major

SAK-19700

Images

OK

Page Structure / Markup

OK

Consistency

Access Keys

OK

Frame Titles

The "My Workspace Information Display" tool displayed by the Home tool includes an iframe that does not have a title to identify its purpose to adaptive technology users. Standards associated with this issue:
WCAG 2, Level A, Success Criteria 2.4.1Section 508 Para-IWCAG 1, Priority-1, Technique 12.1.1

Major

SAK-20396

Style sheets / Linearization

OK

Text Zoom

OK

Tab Order

OK

Functionality

Color

OK

FAE Results

Nothing new found.