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Bug 960464

Summary: 508-A Administration / WSRP page icons do not have ALT text value assigned
Product: [JBoss] JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 6 Reporter: Dominik Pospisil <dpospisi>
Component: PortalAssignee: Lucas Ponce <lponce>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Dominik Pospisil <dpospisi>
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Version: 6.0.0CC: claprun, epp-bugs, theute
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Description Dominik Pospisil 2013-05-07 08:50:01 UTC
508-A Administration / WSRP page icons do not have ALT text value assigned.

This violates 508 certification requirements: ยง 1194.22 (a) Text Equivalents
Provision a text equivalent for every non-text element shall be provided (e.g., via "alt", "LongDesc", or in element content).

Comment 1 Dominik Pospisil 2013-05-07 08:50:56 UTC
Created attachment 744618 [details]
wsrp page icons missing alt texts

Comment 2 Lucas Ponce 2013-05-08 16:58:07 UTC
Fixed in master.

https://issues.jboss.org/browse/GTNPORTAL-2983

Comment 3 claprun@redhat.com 2013-05-09 12:49:58 UTC
I'm rejecting the PR for WSRP admin since I believe that CSS-background, non-semantic images shouldn't have an alt description attached to them. It would only add noise and actually be detrimental to accessibility.
See http://christianheilmann.com/2009/02/25/so-how-do-you-add-alternative-text-to-background-images/ for more information on this.

Comment 4 JBoss JIRA Server 2013-05-09 13:03:08 UTC
Lucas Ponce <ponce.ballesteros> made a comment on jira GTNPORTAL-2983

PR for gatein-portal
https://github.com/gatein/gatein-portal/pull/444

PR for gatein-wsrp
https://github.com/gatein/gatein-wsrp/pull/76

Comment 5 JBoss JIRA Server 2013-05-10 06:22:57 UTC
Lucas Ponce <ponce.ballesteros> made a comment on jira GTNPORTAL-2983

Summary of changes: adding title="<description>" attribute in those <a> <div> elements that use background images in their style.

Comment 6 Lucas Ponce 2013-05-16 07:46:20 UTC
Hi,

We don't have a feedback from Criterion company about background images.

In their document (page 13) they showed WSRP admin page as an example of what have to be fixed.

I've proposed a couple of non-intrusive changes in the following PR:

https://github.com/gatein/gatein-wsrp/pull/76/files

That adds a "title" attribute into <a> tag.

"title" attribute is used by assistance technologies for additional info about link.

We can merge this change or we can wait until we have a feedback from audit company.

As this change is just decorative/non-intrusive I would suggest that we should merge, in case that we have a limited of # feedbacks from audit company.

Regards,
Lucas

Comment 7 JBoss JIRA Server 2013-05-16 09:10:53 UTC
Thomas Heute <theute> made a comment on jira GTNPORTAL-2983

+1 to merge

Comment 8 claprun@redhat.com 2013-05-16 09:34:57 UTC
-1 on merging as I previously mentioned, this only adds noise and actually contradicts the goal of 508. Plus I'm not even sure that adding titles will fix the issue since the image is a background one and the title will only apply to the <a> tag and not the image itself.
I guess the end goal here is are we trying to make GateIn easier to use for disabled people or are we trying to satisfy a stupid conformance tool?