2023-10-11 Meeting notes

Accessibility table

@Vladyslav Zadorozhnii

• https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/BPL/pages/3831726102?atlOrigin=eyJpIjoiZDFiNTQ5MTY0ZTk3NGFjNGIwNzQ3YTgwZDg5NTY1ZWYiLCJwIjoiYyJ9

Notes:

• Including the explicit keyboard support for each component is extremely helpful for contributors and consumers.

• Intent is to eventually port this information over to the docs site.

• We will be explicit about what a11y attributes (e.g., role) can be modified by consumers or not.

  • E.g., aria-label depends on the use case, whereas role="img" probably shouldn’t change depending on the use case (i.e., role attribute should not be overridable by consumers).

SearchField
issues

@Vladyslav Zadorozhnii

• SearchField

  • Style issues with current buttons in SearchField as implemented.

  • Q: Should the buttons be using the IconButton component?

  • Historically, SearchField was created before IconButton existed. We never considered implications for SearchField once IconButton was available.

  • @Vladyslav Zadorozhnii will create a PR and GitHub issue to create a deploy preview around migrating SearchField to use the IconButton component instead.

    • @Jeff Witt (Deactivated) to verify a11y on the deploy preview