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feat(ListBox): fix labels of trigger buttons #4820

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This change fixes an DAP error in <ListBox.Field> that happens because its aria-label not matching its text content. DAP takes aria-labelledby as a preferred label content (over text content or aria-label), and thus this change add aria-labelledby to <ListBox.Field>.

The original aria-label content, which is for letting user know that the UI can open/close menu, is replaced with a browser's native approach to tell assistive technology that the button is a pop-up button and let screen reader announce as such.

This change also changes <label> to <span> for dropdown and non-filterable multi select given there is no form control (<input>) associated with it.

Fixes #4531.

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New

  • A mechanism to map <ListBox.Field> to list box label.

Changed

  • Replaced <label> with <span> for the labels of dropdown and (non-filterable) multi select.

Removed

  • aria-label from the <div role="button"> in <ListBox.Field>.

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Testing should make sure combo box, drop down, multi select, filterable multi select are not broken.

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This change fixes an DAP error in `<ListBox.Field>` that happens
because its `aria-label` not matching its text content. DAP takes
`aria-labelledby` as a preferred label content (over text content or
`aria-label`), and thus this change add `aria-labelledby` to
`<ListBox.Field>`.

The original `aria-label` content, which is for lettting user know that
the UI can open/close menu, is replaced with a browser's native
approach to tell assistive technology that the button is a pop-up
button and let screen reader announce as such.

This change also changes `<label>` to `<span>` for dropdown and
non-filterable multi select given there is no form control (`<input>`)
associated with it.

Fixes carbon-design-system#4531.
@asudoh asudoh requested review from emyarod and abbeyhrt December 5, 2019 10:05
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One thing, do we even need the aria-label to call out Open menu? Screen reader software would be able to say whether the listbox is open/closed through aria-haspopup and aria-expanded if I understand correctly.

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asudoh commented Dec 5, 2019

This PR removes aria-label to call out Open menu.

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For sure! Sorry if I wasn't clear. I was just thinking through the DAP violation and it seemed like only removing the aria-label would be required as the violation seemed to be due to the mismatch of the aria-label being Open menu but the content being different.

What is the expected behavior for VO if the button/field is associated with the label? Specifically, how are we thinking the value would be announced?

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asudoh commented Dec 6, 2019

If we just remove aria-label, the text content inside the trigger button is announced, which will introduce a regression losing the announcement of the trigger button's "toggling" nature.

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joshblack commented Dec 6, 2019

introduce a regression losing the announcement of the trigger button's "toggling" nature.

This is why I said this above:

Screen reader software would be able to say whether the listbox is open/closed through aria-haspopup and aria-expanded if I understand correctly.

As a result, the idea was that this would not need to be communicated through aria-label.

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asudoh commented Dec 6, 2019

Seems that you have a specific change you have in your mind, or specific lines in this PR that you think should be removed. Do you want to put the code snippet if it's the former? Do you want to put some links to the specific lines of code if it's the latter? Thanks!

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If I understand correctly, the diff would be:

  • Remove aria-label from bx--list-box__field (already done)
  • Associate bx--list-box__field with bx--label (already done) and bx--list-box__label through aria-labelledby so that the value is communicated
  • Associate bx--form__helper-text with bx--list-box__field through aria-describedby

Could easily be wrong though, I believe the structure we have in general is inverted (e.g. trigger is a descendant of listbox, two nodes with role="listbox", etc.) and we need to correct those as well for ARIA to work as intended 👍 This also changes between different types (listbox vs combobox, etc)

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cc @dakahn just to confirm, don't want to steer anyone in the wrong direction here 👍

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asudoh commented Dec 13, 2019

Associate bx--list-box__field with ... and bx--list-box__label through aria-labelledby so that the value is communicated

Did you mean a change to <div class="bx--list-box__field"> adding aria-labelledby pointing to <span class="bx--list-box__label"> or something else?

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Yup! <div class="bx--list-box__field" aria-labelledby="bx-label-id list-box__label-id">

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asudoh commented Dec 17, 2019

Above suggested changes are fine with me, updated.

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Hey @asudoh! For the MultiSelect component, it seems like this PR gets rid of the "Accessible name does not match visible text" DAP violation but then creates a "An interactive/widget must have an accessible name" violation. Not sure if we want/need to address this is in this PR but figured i'd point it out!

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asudoh commented Dec 18, 2019

@abbeyhrt Thank you for testing - Not sure if it's a false positive or not, but fixed anyway.

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@abbeyhrt do you have a chance to re-review?? 👀

const title = titleText ? (
<label htmlFor={id} className={titleClasses}>
<span id={id} className={titleClasses}>
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It seems like the id being used here and in ListBox is causing a DAP violation:
Screen Shot 2020-01-07 at 4 41 22 PM

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Great catch @abbeyhrt! Was an error in rebasing. Fixed.

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Looks great! 🎉

@asudoh asudoh merged commit f87a204 into carbon-design-system:master Jan 9, 2020
@asudoh asudoh deleted the listbox-field-labelref branch January 9, 2020 08:58
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AVT 1 - Dropdown had DAP violations
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