A11Y improvement: Make screenreader navigation text more universal

Created on 6 February 2023, almost 2 years ago
Updated 7 February 2023, almost 2 years ago

Problem/Motivation

This came to light because of a recent accessibility audit.
The "screenreader" text that explains how to navigate through the search results is specifically written for keyboard users:
Use the up/down keys to navigate the results or press <ENTER> to show all results.

It would be better to make this text more universal (ex. touchscreens, and perhaps other input devices).

Steps to reproduce

* Start typing until you get some search results.
* When using a screenreader, you should hear the text to navigate using arrow keys & .
* You could also see this in the webinspector.

Proposed resolution

Together with the auditor, we came up with the following text:
Navigate up/down to select results or confirm directly to view all results.
It still gives you the same instructions, but omits the specific keyboard keys.

Remaining tasks

* Change the the text in the module.

User interface changes

* Translations are not included in the module, so people should update their translations for the new text.

API changes

none

Data model changes

none

Feature request
Status

RTBC

Version

2.0

Component

Code

Created by

🇳🇱Netherlands bskibinski Breda, The Netherlands

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