Title: Accessibility Issues
Last modified: March 14, 2018

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# Accessibility Issues

 *  [Alex Stine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexstine/)
 * (@alexstine)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/accessibility-issues-3/)
 * Hello,
 * When checking the theme for accessibility, I thought you had a good start here
   but not completely perfect yet.
 * 1. The search bar at the top of the page is missing the following.
    – Search 
   submit button. – Do not rely on placeholder text to give instructions, add it
   under the search form like this.
 *     ```
       <form>
       <label for="search">Search</label>
       <input type="search" aria-describedby="search-desc" id="search" name="search" value="" />
       <span class="SCREEN READER CLASS HERE" id="search-desc">Type here and press enter to search.</span>
       <input type="submit" value="Search" />
       </form>
       ```
   
 * 2. There are icons that are not hidden. Please add `aria-hidden="true"`.
    3. 
   Add more contextual information for screen readers. If there is a list of tags,
   add some screen reader text before the output that says “Tags” or “Categories”.
   Just more guiding information to help with keyboard navigation.
 * Those are the 3 main issues I found. I am testing with NV Access and latest version
   of Firefox.
 * Please let me know if you have any questions.
 * Thanks.

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/accessibility-issues-3/)
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