microsoft / microsoft/BotFramework-WebChat
Buttons options function as a list and should be indicated as such to screen reader users.
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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?
Keyboard navigation
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.
What do you expect?
When a series of similar items is grouped together in a meaningful or deliberate way, this should be conveyed to screen reader users. Use standard HTML to mark up all such content as a list.
What actually happened?
The buttons are not conveyed as a list to screen reader users.
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
https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understanding/info-and-relationships
WAI-ARIA reference
No response
Adaptive Card JSON
No response
Additional context
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Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the button group at https://edfinancial.com with a screen reader and inspect its rendered HTML. Compare the grouping with the WCAG 2.2 Info and Relationships reference; done means the related buttons are announced as a list without changing their keyboard behavior.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- html
- Domain
- accessibility, frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100