A11Y improvement: Make screenreader navigation text more universal

Created on 6 February 2023, over 1 year ago
Updated 7 February 2023, over 1 year 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

πŸ‡³πŸ‡±Netherlands bskibinski Breda, The Netherlands

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