microsoft / microsoft/BotFramework-WebChat
Timestamp is only visible to screenreaders
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Description
Is it an issue related to Adaptive Cards?
No.
What is the PWD impact?
No response
What browsers and screen readers do this issue affect?
No response
Are there any code-based customization done to Web Chat?
No, I am using Web Chat without any customizations except "styleOptions".
What version of Web Chat are you using?
Latest production
Which area does this issue affect?
Transcript navigation, Others or unrelated
What is the public URL for the website?
How to reproduce the issue?
This is feedback from the accessibility company Allyant who has been testing our website and has people who use screenreaders and other assistive technologies as a part of their testing team.
The timestamp is only visible to screenreaders and is on the page as transparent text for visual users. If the timestamp is intended to be hidden from the user, it needs to also be hidden from screenreaders through the use of display:none or visibility:hidden.
What do you expect?
Screen readers should not be able to read the timestamp text that appears as "hidden" to the visual user.
What actually happened?
See other responses.
Do you have any screenshots or recordings to repro the issue?
No response
Did you find any DOM elements that might have caused the issue?
No response
MAS reference
No response
WCAG reference
WAI-ARIA reference
No response
Adaptive Card JSON
No response
Additional context
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- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Reproduce the issue at https://edfinancial.com and inspect the transcript timestamp in the rendered DOM and accessibility tree. Verify how the timestamp is exposed to screen readers while remaining transparent to visual users. Done means the timestamp is no longer exposed to screen readers and the visual transcript remains unchanged.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- html
- Domain
- accessibility, frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100