omeka / omeka/plugin-VraCore

Improve labels on `textarea` inputs within VRA drawers

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Since Sep 12, 2025.

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Description

Currently, textarea inputs within drawers use aria-label="Content" for their accessible names. It would be a vast improvement to screen reader announcements to instead describe these fields more specifically according to their corresponding onscreen labels (like in the example below, "Author").

Admin dashboard. An open drawer on the VRA Core tab of an item edit page. Browser dev tools are open, with hover over the HTML for a textarea input within a drawer labelled 'Author,' which is in view

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