microsoft / microsoft/react-native-gallery
[React Native Gallery]: While navigating in the left navigation pane in scan on mode, narrator focus is falling on the decorative images and narrator remains silent.
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- Dominant language
- TypeScript
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Description
Repro-Steps:
Launch the React Native Gallery app.
Navigate to ‘Navigation bar hamburger icon’ button and invoke it.
Now set narrator to scan on mode using caps+space key and navigate.
Actual Result:
While navigating in the left navigation pane in scan on mode, narrator focus is falling on the decorative images and narrator remains silent.
Expected Result:
When user navigate in left navigation pane in scan on mode, narrator focus should not fall on the icons as it is not providing any information to the user.
User impact:
Users with visual impairments who rely on screen reader will face difficulties if narrator focus fall on the decorative images.
Internal bug link: https://microsoft.visualstudio.com/DefaultCollection/OS/_workitems/edit/43361378
Contributor guide
First steps
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
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Research direction
Start by launching the React Native Gallery app and reproducing the issue with Narrator in scan mode after opening the navigation pane with the hamburger button. Inspect the left navigation pane and its decorative icons; done means scan navigation skips those images and Narrator does not stop silently on them.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- react-native, typescript
- Domain
- accessibility, mobile-dev
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100