Accessibility-insights-web: Allow explanations for failures in lists of instances

Created on 1 Apr 2019  路  6Comments  路  Source: microsoft/accessibility-insights-web

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Some of the categories produce a list of elements on the page that you can mark as a pass or fail. Sometimes it's not immediately obvious to another person why you've marked a particular instance as a fail.

e.g. I might want to fail <h1><img src="logo.gif" alt="Project Name"></h1> under "Headings -> Heading function" because the alt text doesn't describe the purpose of the page and shouldn't be a heading.

I might also want to fail <img src="logo.gif" alt="header logo"> under "Images -> Text alternative" because the alt text doesn't have parity with the text in the logo.

Currently there's no way for me to actually say that in the report - I just have to mark it as a fail and hope the person reviewing the report (who might be the same person who implemented the original code!) understands the problem.

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It'd be good to be able to add a comment in lists of instances (e.g. headings, images) to make it clear in the exported report why an item has been flagged.

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This is a _fantastic_ tool, thanks so much for your hard work on it! 馃槃

feature request help wanted needs investigation

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Thanks for the feature request @hollsk! We will add the tag "needs help" and if someone in the community wants to help make this happen we can provide the mock-ups for this.

Some additional thoughts on this, we already have a panel to add a comment for manual instances, so that can be re-utilized for this. Each element row will need to have a way to add a comment as well as an indicator that there is a comment. The report will need to add a comment for the failure instances that have a comment. Also need to consider that if an instance is marked as pass then the user cannot add a comment (currently passed instances are not listed in the report)

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Thanks for the feature request @hollsk! We will add the tag "needs help" and if someone in the community wants to help make this happen we can provide the mock-ups for this.

Some additional thoughts on this, we already have a panel to add a comment for manual instances, so that can be re-utilized for this. Each element row will need to have a way to add a comment as well as an indicator that there is a comment. The report will need to add a comment for the failure instances that have a comment. Also need to consider that if an instance is marked as pass then the user cannot add a comment (currently passed instances are not listed in the report)

After doing my first assessment this was my main problem with the tool.

From a user perspective it is weird that some checks have the option for comments, and others do not. This requires you to have an accompanying document to record your comments anyway, reducing the usefulness of the report and the comments that you _can_ add.

Additionally, there were cases where I wanted to explain why I _passed_ a certain check, so I don't agree at this point with the idea that you shouldn't be able to add a comment when the item/check is marked passed.

Thanks for your feedback @joppekroon! After taking a look, we do send the details of a pass instance into the report, so a comment for passed or failed instance could be in the report.

We have marked this issue as "needs help" in case someone in the community wants to take a look :)

+1 for this feature request. Excellent tool can be made better with comments feature added to all manual tests pass or fail.

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