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Improve accessibility of status message component #607

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benjystanton opened this issue Sep 27, 2024 · 1 comment

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benjystanton commented Sep 27, 2024

Following some accessibility recommendations and some rough implementation notes about how to improve the accessibility of the status message component.

I'm going to create a branch and start trying to implement some of the changes, so they can be reviewed and agreed.

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Updating the component
Updating the component documentation page

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benjystanton commented Sep 27, 2024 •

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Changes so far…

Docs page

expanded the accessibility advice
added the HO design system date mark-up to examples that a date

Component

Removed an extra div
added a h2 and tweaked CSS styles for narrow viewports
added role="region"
added aria-labelledby="hods-status-message-status"
added id="hods-status-message-status" to associate the region with the h2

Next steps

review from developer to make sure changes to React are done correctly (probably not!)
remove h2 from instances of component if there is no other content
Check with accessibility assurance team
Check content with content designer
Decide how best to style h2 on narrower screens because switching to h2 does cause visual difference

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