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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