openedx / openedx/frontend-app-authoring
a11y(critical) sidebar icons have unsupported ARIA
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a11y
bug
- Dominant language
- TypeScript
- Stars
- 17
- Forks
- 218
- Avg merge
- 9d 20h
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Description
The right-hand sidebar's icon buttons ("Info", "Add", "Align" (tags), and "Help") carry aria-selected, which is not a supported ARIA attribute on a button. We should probably either drop that or make the buttons into actual tabs / toggles with an appropriate role.
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the right-hand sidebar implementation and the "Info", "Add", "Align", and "Help" icon buttons, then inspect how aria-selected is applied. Confirm whether each control represents a tab or toggle before choosing the appropriate semantics; done means the buttons no longer use unsupported ARIA and accessibility checks pass.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- react, typescript
- Domain
- accessibility, frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 68/100