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Re: [EXTERNAL]Linking article previews

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From: Mark Magennis
Date: Jul 22, 2019 9:58AM

Well, Brian didn't want the entire text of the article to be read out as the link name, but I imagined that his UX crew probably still want the entire area of the article to be mouse clickable.

I actually have almost the same issue here except the approach I've suggested won't work for us. We have cards that represent learning assets (courses, videos, audiobooks, etc.) and which contain a lot of content (name, type, details, image, etc.) just like Brian. We also want the card to be a link that opens the asset, we want mouse users to be able to click anywhere on it, but we don't want all that content to be read out as the link title. But our cards also contain a Like button and an Actions menu and we are finding that when the Actions menu button receives focus in IE11, JAWS and NVDA both read out the entire contents of the card before reading the button's name. The 'cause' appears to be a tabindex="-1" on an ancestor div but that's there for a good reason so we're having to think creatively about how to get rid of it without getting rid of it. Sometimes I wish we could just get rid of Internet Explorer. But we can't.

Mark

Mark Magennis
Skillsoft | mobile: +353 87 60 60 162
Accessibility Specialist


-----Original Message-----
From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of glen walker
Sent: 22 July 2019 16:14
To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] [EXTERNAL] Re: Linking article previews

That was Brian's original request, that he didn't want the entire <div> to
be the link. That was actually my first idea but I changed it after I
re-read his question.

On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 3:27 AM Mark Magennis < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Glen, a problem with this approach is that the whole on-screen area of the
> article is no longer clickable. You have to click on the title.
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