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Wātea theme's navigation menus (MainNav.ss) are not accessible #137
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Any eta on when someone will look into these accessibility issues which is a government requirement to meet WCAG 2.1 to level AA? |
Given that CWP has been discontinued I doubt there will be much incentive to make these changes unless they are community lead. |
Thank you for your response @dhensby. I will pass this information on to our Accessibility Management Team. |
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The navigation needs to be properly audited for accessibility against WCAG 2.1, and tested using multiple assistive technologies, across multiple platforms. You'll discover a range of severe accessibility issues with the navigation implementation. The code needs to be reviewed and remediated by somebody with a high level of accessibility knowledge (testing, semantic HTML, correct ARIA usage, etc).
I'd suggest, at a minimum, the navigation should be tested with:
Some current issues I've picked up are:
menu item menu button collapsed subMenu Display Features submenu pages
" - this has a huge amount of clutter and makes the interface hard to understand for screen reader usersRecommendations:
Look at the navigation implementation on digital.govt.nz, how it does not use the menubar/menu/menuitem roles, and provides a screen-reader and keyboard-accessible experience
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