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[Kristina Hoeppner <1942035@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Many buttons (and some links) in Mahara are in tables or lists, e.g. on the institution settings page, in web services, on 'Shared by me'. A screen reader only reads the following for exmaple:
- Edit
- Edit
- Edit

and thus can't differentiate whether the first 'Edit' is for page 'Test'
or 'Learning' etc.

We should uniquely identify these. Some of the buttons already do that
well, e.g. Admin menu -> Web services -> External apps. Even sighted
people see a title for the button that includes the element on which the
action is performed.

On Admin menu -> Institutions -> Settings the buttons have alt text, but
no title. The title would bring up the 'tooltip' for sighted people and
thus make it clearer what the button does that only has an icon but no
text.

We should therefore have the same behaviour for every button in Mahara
and add that helper text to identify the elements on which the actions
are performed correctly. Check with the accessibility team what should
be used to help both sighted and non-sighted people.

My current preference is to make sure that on hover a button displays
the title rather than only making that information available to screen
readers when we have a list of items. Whether such a title is sufficient
for screen readers or whether we also need 'alt' or special screen
reader tags will need to be decided based on accessibility best
practices.

Before making any changes, please propose the plan going forward as
there are lots of places in Mahara that would need to be changed.

** Affects: mahara
     Importance: Medium
         Status: Confirmed


** Tags: accessibility

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Title:
  Add 'title' to buttons that includes info about the element for
  uniqueness

Status in Mahara:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Many buttons (and some links) in Mahara are in tables or lists, e.g. on the institution settings page, in web services, on 'Shared by me'. A screen reader only reads the following for exmaple:
  - Edit
  - Edit
  - Edit

  and thus can't differentiate whether the first 'Edit' is for page
  'Test' or 'Learning' etc.

  We should uniquely identify these. Some of the buttons already do that
  well, e.g. Admin menu -> Web services -> External apps. Even sighted
  people see a title for the button that includes the element on which
  the action is performed.

  On Admin menu -> Institutions -> Settings the buttons have alt text,
  but no title. The title would bring up the 'tooltip' for sighted
  people and thus make it clearer what the button does that only has an
  icon but no text.

  We should therefore have the same behaviour for every button in Mahara
  and add that helper text to identify the elements on which the actions
  are performed correctly. Check with the accessibility team what should
  be used to help both sighted and non-sighted people.

  My current preference is to make sure that on hover a button displays
  the title rather than only making that information available to screen
  readers when we have a list of items. Whether such a title is
  sufficient for screen readers or whether we also need 'alt' or special
  screen reader tags will need to be decided based on accessibility best
  practices.

  Before making any changes, please propose the plan going forward as
  there are lots of places in Mahara that would need to be changed.

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