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Improve Accessibility: Ensure Screen Readers Do Not Announce Plus-sign for Local-action Links

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Created on 27 April 2017, over 7 years ago
Updated 8 February 2024, 10 months ago

Problem/Motivation

Original Post

When using Mac Voiceover on Administration pages for "Add Content," "Add Content Type," "Install New Module," etc. there is a "+" prepending the text.

The screen reader announces the plus sign, which is a visual enhancement, but confusing to those with screenreaders.

We need to adapt the HTML or the CSS to make it so it only announces the button text, but not the button symbols.

The code is currently along these lines (using the Seven admin theme):
<a href="/admin/modules/install" class="button button-action button--primary button--small" data-drupal-link-system-path="admin/modules/install">Install new module</a>

There is a ::before element that has the content in it:

button-action:before {
    content: '+';
    font-weight: 900;
}

For clarity, screenshots are attached.

Steps to reproduce

Use Mac VoiceOver and the screen reader announces the plus sign

Proposed resolution

Merge request link

https://git.drupalcode.org/project/drupal/-/merge_requests/6333

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Status

Needs work

Version

11.0 🔥

Component
CSS  →

Last updated 5 days ago

Created by

🇺🇸United States littlekope0903

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  • Comment almost 2 years ago →
    🇦🇺Australia larowlan 🇦🇺🏝.au GMT+10

    Tagging to breath some life in here

  • Comment over 1 year ago →
    🇨🇦Canada mgifford Ottawa, Ontario

    I tried to find a WCAG SC for this, but was having trouble finding a way to exclude content that should be hidden.

  • Comment 11 months ago →
    🇨🇦Canada mgifford Ottawa, Ontario

    Adding reference to Windows High Contrast Mode.

  • First commit to issue fork.
  • Merge request !6333Issue #2873404 by ranjith_kumar_k_u, sim_1, kostyashupenko, vsujeetkumar:... → (Open) created by mark_fullmer
  • Status changed to Needs review 11 months ago
  • Comment 11 months ago →
    🇺🇸United States mark_fullmer Tucson

    It's been a bit of time since we've had a patch that applies to the latest version of Drupal. The merge request above works with 11.x.

    The comment that set this to "Needs work" reported that VoiceOver was still reading the "+". The previous patch seemed to still contain some content: "+" declarations, so maybe that was the issue.

    In any case, in my testing, after removing content: "+" in favor of <span aria-hidden="true">+</span> works as expected, in Firefox, Chrome, and Safari.

    And this approach addresses the concerns about Windows High Contrast Mode (as opposed to using a background-url approach).

    Setting back to "Needs review."

  • Pipeline finished with Failed
    11 months ago
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    #82927
  • Status changed to Needs work 11 months ago
  • Comment 11 months ago →
    🇺🇸United States smustgrave

    Issue summary looks like it could use some attention. Recommend following the standard issue template.

    Do wonder if this could cause some breakage by changing a class name.

    MR appears to have failures.

  • Comment 11 months ago →
    🇮🇳India djsagar

    Enhance Summary Description Following Drupal Standards for Improved Understanding of the Issue Tagged

  • Pipeline finished with Success
    11 months ago
    Total: 569s
    #87679
  • Comment 10 months ago →
    shweta__sharma

    Added standard IS template.

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