spinner a11y is broken

[Douglas Hays]

With revision [8660], spinner now has huge problems. Using FF 2.0 on WinXP:

ctrl + does not resize the arrows or their containing boxes.

A large font size used by visually imparied users does not resize the arrows accordingly.

High contrast mode does not show arrows at all.

With images off, the arrows do not show up at all.

These scenarios were all working well before this revision.

[owen]

(In [8699]) refs #3071 #2839 One possible workaround for the arrow-image problem (3071), as well as Tundraification of the Progress bar. See those bugs for more details

[owen]

Checked in (to Autocompleter only) is another possible solution in terms of having a non-image-based-arrows that will scale. I'll send mail out tonight about the possible approaches and what I've learned. This will likely change again soon. (Note: no actual effect on Spinner at this time, this bug is for all of these types of problems).

[owen]

(In [8701]) refs #3071 Arrows are at least on the same line in IE, although they're the same size. Problem was that width and height need to be explicitly set on the fieldset in IE to make the nested fieldsets work.

[owen]

Becky, can you verify what still needs to be done and reassign to me? Thanks

[Becky Gibson]

In consistent colors in high contrast mode on IE 7 Windows. Arrow and button text matches high contrast colors for combo button but not for other buttons (they are white text and arrow). It is ok on Firefox. See HC_ie.jpg attached.

Arrows shift when change text size in FF. I can live with this since IE 7 allows scaling and Firefox 3 will provide scaling as well. See largespinner.jpg

Combobuttons have sizing issues when font is scaled in FF. I had to increase size 3 times to see this - can probably live with if necessary See combobutton.jpg

accordionContainer arrows need to be updated to use new method - currently they do not work in high contrast and images off mode (can make a separate ticket).

Need to identify the active tab - perhaps with a border - right now it is just a background color.

[Becky Gibson]

Note that combobuttons are ok after resizing if you reload the page - this is acceptable.

Screen reader now speaks "question" for the down arrow on the dropdown button - separate ticket filed as there is a work around to fix this. Screen reader is speaking "question" for the html entity character. Generally these characters will not get focus and thus will not be spoken. The button is hopefully the only place where this will be an issue. #3032

[bill]

Assigning to Sam Foster since he's working on it.

About focus on the spinner buttons: I don't think they should be able to receive focus. Keyboard support for spinner widget is done by using the up/down arrow keys (or by typing a number directly).

[Sam Foster]

See patch attached to #3301 to address this ticket also. I've been able to test high contrast mode, but not screen-readers, however I've followed the implementation of other form widgets and am reasonably confident its good there.

[Sam Foster]

Got a verbal ok from Becky that this checks out as fixed in Jaws, high-contrast mode. Focus handling is correct and resizing/font-scaling works. The patch (attached to #3301) has been merged, and it looks complete here, so I'm going to close this. Please re-open if I've misunderstood or there's still an issue.