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Re: Sortable table columns

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From: Mallory
Date: Aug 6, 2020 5:59AM

This is a great idea, Birkir.

Typically the sites I check have a graphic button instead of the colheader text being in the button, and I've wrestled with "how can I click these with my voice" against the "now the crappy sort text becomes colheader text". If I can get buy-in to set the colheader text as buttons and get the designers to style them so they actually look like buttons (this one is hard lol), this is a winner.

cheers
_mallory

On Thu, Aug 6, 2020, at 2:11 AM, Birkir R. Gunnarsson wrote:
> Typically those tables have the column header text + a button that
> says "click to sort" or some such (or a visual arrow icon button that
> has to have some sort of an accessible name).
> Any accessible name that isn't part of the column header text is
> repeated as part of the column header text for every cell in that
> column (when people navigate to it) making it so annoying as to be
> almost a blocker for someone using a screen reader.
> Column header text has to be descriptive and succinct, which usually
> makes for a perfect is an ideal button label.
>
> On 8/5/20, glen walker < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> > Yes, I've seen the pattern that Birkir uses but that requires the entire
> > column header be a button. It sounded like the original question had plain
> > text in the header and a separate button for sorting.
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