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Re: Is screen-reader silence on button activation a failure? If so, what does it fail?

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From: Jeremy Echols
Date: Sep 9, 2021 10:46AM

I agree, and in an ideal world we'd announce "17 items selected" or something. And make it a true toggle button. But at the moment, that kind of change isn't feasible. And the button is basically disconnected from the checkboxes - the button just turns everything to checked regardless of their current state. There's a "Select none" button that's basically the opposite, and just as annoying to fix.

I guess I know what *should* be done, but right now we're stuck remediating things as best we can, not making major changes.

My underlying question is really just whether this is a WCAG failure, and if so, what it fails. We're having to prioritize a huge number of accessibility problems and I'm trying to let the other devs know how big a deal this one is.