Accessibility issue: unlocker grafic for basename field not visible to screen reading software

[radiorobbe]

When creating or updating a post/page, the unlocker grafic for the basename field (admin/images/locker.png) is invisible for some screen reading software, because it has no alt-text value. A simple fix for this issue is to add an alt text value to the locker function referencing this grafic in admin/js/common.js.

[kozlika]

common.js line 260, works well in english. Or perhaps a browser problem ? Wich one do you use ?

[radiorobbe]

Replying to kozlika:

common.js line 260, works well in english. Or perhaps a browser problem ? Wich one do you use ?

Using IE 10, german dotclear installation. The locker icon is visible on the screen, that's not the problem. I am a blind computer user and have to access my computer with a screen reader which provides speech and braille output. And for the speech or braille output the locker icon is not recognizable because of missing alt text. I've already confirmed the problem by adding an alt text after the line that references the locker.png in commen.js, then the grafic was perfectly visible to my software and I was able to click it. However, modding the dotclear core causes automatic updates to fail.

[kozlika]

I've understood what about you were talking. I know accessibility issues. What I don't understand is that there IS an alt text (in common.js, line 260 :

imgE.alt=dotclear.msg.click_to_unlock;

This displays correctly an alt text for the locker image (well… it's the case for me!). So I don't understand what is the matter.

(Minutes later…)

Oh! I was looked my 2.6-dev version and your's is 2.5! Sorry for the confusion and happy to tell you that alt-text has been fixed! (2.6 to come in weeks)