[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #25459: Provide more meaningful links in Edit Post/Page

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#25459: Provide more meaningful links in Edit Post/Page
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 Reporter:  grahamarmfield           |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)             |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                   |   Milestone:  3.8
Component:  Accessibility            |     Version:  3.6.1
 Severity:  normal                   |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch i18n-change  |
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Comment (by grahamarmfield):

 Replying to [comment:24 johnbillion]:
 > Graham Armfield done some testing at the contributor day and confirmed
 that this technique works with JAWS and NVDA on IE and Firefox (I'm not
 sure exactly which versions) on Win7, and provides a great benefit to
 screenreader users.

 I have now also done some testing with Dragon Naturally Speaking 12 -
 which is voice recognition software used by some people with motor
 impairments. It was tested with IE10 on a Windows 7 machine.

 The test was successful and the links could be followed as the user would
 expect. This is great news and I do (cautiously) see this as a good
 solution going forward.

 In fact, with the version of Dragon used, both the short and long link
 texts are available for use. I believe this to be because Dragon currently
 contains no support for ARIA and so the 'short' link text is also
 available even though it is enveloped with a span that uses aria-hidden.

 There is some debate about whether Dragon will ever support ARIA (see
 http://blog.paciellogroup.com/2013/11/short-note-aria-dragon-
 accessibility/) but if we are going to progress this solution it would be
 sensible if the 'short' link text was always contained within the 'long'
 link text.

 If Dragon Naturally Speaking ever does start recognising and respecting
 aria-hidden then accessing the link via the visible (to sighted users)
 'short' link will no longer be possible. If the 'long' invisible (to
 sighted users) link text says something completely different then Dragon
 users will have difficulty accessing the functionality. It is not however
 a show stopper, as Dragon users also have a couple of ways to emulate
 mouse clicks. They won't want to be doing that all the time though - it's
 a drag.

 I will shortly be testing an example page on an iPad using Voiceover - the
 inbuilt screen reader on iOS.

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