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Accessibility issue #2 - Standard File Upload Widget #58

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sfrucht opened this issue Aug 2, 2016 · 0 comments
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Accessibility issue #2 - Standard File Upload Widget #58

sfrucht opened this issue Aug 2, 2016 · 0 comments

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sfrucht commented Aug 2, 2016

While the standard file upload widget is not inaccessible, both Firefox and Chrome do not allow screen readers to read the labels provided. This is a browser issue, but can be fixed using Javascript. Doing so will also allow you to add CSS and make it look better visually. A person helping to test accessibility created this upload sample of a selector widget that uses a label element instead of a button as a trigger. He did not add styles to make it appear as a button, but you could:
http://www.mit.edu/~rjc/aria/upload.html

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