Harris and I have been looking into the following jiras, which all have to do
with sorting the data in the pager component.
FLUID-3850:
After column sorted, no screen reader confirmation/indication of the
fact
http://issues.fluidproject.org/browse/FLUID-3850
FLUID-3849:
No screen reader indication whether a column is/will be sorted
ascending or descending
http://issues.fluidproject.org/browse/FLUID-3849
FLUID-3848:
No screen reader indication that a column has been used for sorting
http://issues.fluidproject.org/browse/FLUID-3848
Jan had suggested that we look at the aria-sort property.
http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/states_and_properties#aria-sort
Harris mocked up some tests for this, but the screen readers weren't reading
them back. We have confirmed that Firefox is exposing it, but it seems like the
readers just aren't supporting it yet.
So the question is, what should we do? We can implement aria-sort , when the
screen readers finally support it, it will work. Otherwise we could implement a
work around.
I would suggest that we at least create a patch of the aria-sort implementation
and if we don't commit it to trunk we should make a branch so that we have
something to take to the screen reader vendors. We will definitely attempt to
contact NVDA and possibly JAWS about getting it working.
Thanks
Justin
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