Gutenberg-mobile: Accessibility investigation.

Created on 17 Jan 2019 · 4Comments · Source: wordpress-mobile/gutenberg-mobile

At some point it will be necessary to investigate how to apply the native Accessibility in React-Native.

There is an articule about this here: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/accessibility.html

With that investigation, we should be able to figure out what is the work we need to do to make Gutenberg Mobile accessible, and create a guideline for all future UI development work to comply to.

Actions, improve accessibility on:

[x] Toolbar: PR #793
[x] Image block (deselected): PR #794
[x] Image block (selected + toolbar): PR #920
[x] Paragraph block: PR #923

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etoledom

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Excellent, thanks for the update! @wordpress-mobile/platform-9 also agreed that we're happy to help with adding accessibility labels and identifiers as needed (especially for test automation but also as we come across issues). So once there's a documented/agreed-upon process for making Gutenberg accessible please let us know and we can contribute to any work that's needed in the existing UI!

rachelmcr on 21 Mar 2019

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Do we have a timeline or estimate for when we'll work on this? I started looking at accessibility in the WPiOS integration and ran into major accessibility issues (no labels for toolbar buttons, block-level buttons completely inaccessible). That's a concern for our users and a blocker for automating tests that use Gutenberg.

rachelmcr on 21 Mar 2019

We will start working on this next spring 👍

etoledom on 21 Mar 2019

rachelmcr on 21 Mar 2019

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Closing since the main issues have been solved.
A few new independent tickets have been opened too.

etoledom on 2 May 2019

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