Accessibility update for Ultimate FAQ | WordPress.org

teisha21
(@teisha21)

4 years, 5 months ago
Just did a 508 review on the Ultimate FAQs that we are using on one of our website and I noticed that it doesn’t pass when you’re using a screen-reader with the expand/collapse feature. The screen reader should announce to users when the link has been collapsed/expanded. https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#dfn-change-of-context (link to WCAG 2.1). If you add ‘aria-expanded’ attribute to the a tag and set it to true/false then it should announce to the user when its collapsed and expanded. If you need help/an example or anything let me know.
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Plugin Author Rustaurius
(@rustaurius)

4 years, 5 months ago

Hello @teisha21,

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. If you’ve got an example, that would definitely be helpful. We’ll add this to our to do list for our next maintenance update if possible.

southernroutes
(@southernroutes)

4 years, 3 months ago

Hi, just curious if there’s been any further progress on this? I’ve got one client’s site with UFAQ implemented and now another that’s asking for this functionality, but specifically for ADA compliance. Any info will be greatly appreciated!

Thread Starter teisha21
(@teisha21)

4 years, 2 months ago

Here’s one of the pages we setup that uses an accessible expand/collapse: https://u-fi.com/faqs/
Here is another simple example as well: http://pauljadam.com/demos/aria-expanded.html

Also some more info from WC3 website: https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/Using_the_WAI-ARIA_aria-expanded_state_to_mark_expandable_and_collapsible_regions

The main thing is that these buttons/links should be announced to screen readers when they have been expanded or collapsed.

Additionally the user should have the ability to do this with a mouse or a keyboard (I typically use “Enter” key). I believe this plugin did do this but just wanted to note that as well.

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