Input help text should be linked using ARIA

Bug #1259388 reported by Jono M
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Mahara
Fix Released
Medium
Jono M

Bug Description

It would be helpful for users of screen readers to be able to hear the help text assigned to form fields. Setting the aria-describedby attribute on the input is probably the best way to do this.
This is especially important for inputs which require a specific format (such as dates)

Affects latest master (using Orca 3.4.2)

(WCAG Level A)

Jono M (jonom)
description: updated
Jono M (jonom)
description: updated
Jono M (jonom)
Changed in mahara:
importance: Undecided → Low
importance: Low → Medium
Jono M (jonom)
tags: added: academy
Jono M (jonom)
Changed in mahara:
assignee: nobody → Jono Mingard (mingard)
tags: removed: academy
Jono M (jonom)
Changed in mahara:
status: New → In Progress
Jono M (jonom)
Changed in mahara:
milestone: none → 1.9.0
Jono M (jonom)
tags: added: wcag
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Jono M (jonom) wrote :
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Mahara Bot (dev-mahara) wrote : A change has been merged

Reviewed: https://reviews.mahara.org/2866
Committed: http://gitorious.org/mahara/mahara/commit/b90f215f0ad3c88a656536f571fb3cdf3d03b9a0
Submitter: Son Nguyen (<email address hidden>)
Branch: master

commit b90f215f0ad3c88a656536f571fb3cdf3d03b9a0
Author: Jono Mingard <email address hidden>
Date: Mon Jan 6 12:37:52 2014 +1300

Link form inputs to description text with aria-describedby (Bug #1259388)

All pieform elements (and inputs within composite elements) are now linked
using the aria-describedby attribute to their help text, to aid screen reader
users.

Change-Id: I5eb4ab7b7561c1dabb74a6b772b84eb6a3e197d4
Signed-off-by: Jono Mingard <email address hidden>

Son Nguyen (ngson2000)
Changed in mahara:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Robert Lyon (robertl-9)
Changed in mahara:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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