Table headers in Inbox are not read properly by screen readers

Bug #1259411 reported by Jono M
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Mahara
Fix Released
Medium
Jono M

Bug Description

When navigating the notifications table in the Inbox using a screen reader, "Read" and "Delete" are not read out as column headers - instead "Select All" is read.
This issue is probably due to having a <br> in the table header and would be fixed if "Select All" could be moved elsewhere.

Affects latest master (using Orca 3.4.2)

(WCAG Level A)

Jono M (jonom)
Changed in mahara:
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Jono M (jonom) wrote :

This should be tested in JAWS and/or NVDA to see if it's handled any better.

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Jono M (jonom) wrote :

Julius has tested in NVDA/JAWS:
JAWS speaks "read / select all" and "delete / select all" as 4th and 5th column headers
NVDA does not read any column header, and just speaks the cell contents (checkbox, "read" icon)

Jono M (jonom)
Changed in mahara:
assignee: nobody → Jono Mingard (mingard)
status: New → In Progress
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Mahara Bot (dev-mahara) wrote : A patch has been submitted for review

Patch for "master" branch: https://reviews.mahara.org/2964

Jono M (jonom)
Changed in mahara:
milestone: none → 1.9.0
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Mahara Bot (dev-mahara) wrote : A change has been merged

Reviewed: https://reviews.mahara.org/2964
Committed: http://gitorious.org/mahara/mahara/commit/1951110090afeac3f9431e844a43a002be7ebb43
Submitter: Son Nguyen (<email address hidden>)
Branch: master

commit 1951110090afeac3f9431e844a43a002be7ebb43
Author: Jono Mingard <email address hidden>
Date: Mon Jan 27 17:00:15 2014 +1300

Rearranged Inbox table headers for screen reader users (Bug #1259411)

Moved "Select all" buttons to the table footer and moved "Mark as read" and
"Delete" buttons into a separate div. This allows screen readers to read out
the "Read" and "Delete" column headers properly.

Change-Id: Ia2553b3dc55c79349b92ccafa589abfb3a64fb2f
Signed-off-by: Jono Mingard <email address hidden>

Jono M (jonom)
Changed in mahara:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Robert Lyon (robertl-9)
Changed in mahara:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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