Re: Accessibility issues in PgAdmin

Hi,

On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 12:42 AM <timjonas(dot)boettcher(at)gmx(dot)de> wrote:

> Hello,
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> I discovered an accessibility issue in PgAdmin:
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> All toggle buttons (eg. used to grant or revoke a role’s rights or adjust
> the app’s behaviour in preferences) are labelled as toggle buttons and
> their yes/no, true/false state gets reported correctly, but do not have the
> appropriate WAI-ARIA roles (role="button" and aria-pressed="true/false").
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> Therefore, they do not actually behave like toggle buttons (to a screen
> reader, they are simply text). Moreover, the buttons only respond to
> mouse-clicks on … I don’t even know, because my braille display only shows
> empty space at the spot where one would need to click.
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> Is there, perhaps, a keyboard shortcut/mnemonic to toggle the buttons? Or
> do all of you simply use the mouse?
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Use a space button to toggle the yes/no or true/false buttons.

> If the latter: Is the pgadmin-hackers mailing list the right spot for
> feature requests/patch requests or is there a GitHub repository where I
> could post the issue?
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Use https://redmine.postgresql.org/projects/pgadmin4 to log the request in
future.

Thanks,
Khushboo

> Making the toggle buttons respond to keyboard actions (such as clicks
> using the space bar) has the advantage that it includes blind users as well
> as users struggling to handle a mouse, or those who simply prefer using the
> keyboard.
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> Thanks in advance for your suggestions!
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> Kind regards,
>
> Tim
>