This is no longer happening with the NVDA screen
reader, which had the issue, when testing in
Outlook.
The hack added as a temporary solution has now
been removed. It went live on 19 November 2020 at
2.20pm.
The following issues were raised with the table
that replays CSV data to users:
1. the table could not be located by low vision
users using the reflow technique
2. the content should be presented in a single
column when the reflow technique is used
Number 2. came from the Web Content Accessibility
guidelines (WCAG) success criteria 1.4.10 Reflow.
I wasn't able to reproduce number 1. so asked the
Digital Accessibility Centre (DAC), who tested it
originally, for help. Tom Shaw from DAC kindly
retested it and found the problem was gone so I am
considering it fixed.
I am treating number 2. as a misinterpretation of
the success criteria as it lists data tables as an
exception to the rule:
"Except for parts of the content which require
two-dimensional layout for usage or meaning.
...Examples of content which requires
two-dimensional layout are images, maps, diagrams,
video, games, presentations, data tables, and
interfaces where it is necessary to keep toolbars
in view while manipulating content."
The full page is here:
https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/reflow.html
The accessibility statement was last updated on 9
October 2020 but without the 'last reviewed' date
being updated.
The changes were contained in this pull request
which was merged the same day and reached
production at 2.13pm.
https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-admin/pull/3677
The Digital Accessibility Centre (DAC) reported
that it was confusing that focus was moved to the
templates and folders search textbox when the page
loaded on the templates page.
We noted that this issue wasn't reported on the
page where you enter your SMS 2-factor code.
From this, we determined that pages with a single
task could benefit from focus moving to the part
of the page that lets you do that task.
Because of this we:
- found all the pages we shift focus on when they
load
- kept it for pages where the focus shift is
important for what users do on the page
- removed it for all other pages (including
templates)
The work was completed in:
https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-admin/pull/3622
This work also changed the label of the focused
element as a hack to get the page title read out.
This normally happens on load to indicate a
navigation has happened but didn't in Voiceover
when we focused an element on load.
After testing with JAWS and NVDA we found only
Voiceover does this. As Voiceover has the smallest
market share, and navigation can be inferred by
other mean, we removed it in:
https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-admin/pull/3673
That was deployed today.
