Spoiler issues with VoiceOver

Dannii · July 6, 2023, 7:36am

I’ve made a PR with some accessibility improvements:

github.com/discourse/discourse-spoiler-alert

Accessibility improvements

main ← curiousdannii:main

merged 03:55PM - 01 Aug 23 UTC

curiousdannii

+20 -10

Fix for https://meta.discourse.org/t/spoiler-issues-with-voiceover/257450/15 …- Most important is to remove `aria-label` when unblurring, as it is read by screen readers instead of any of the content. - I also removed the `role` as it resulted in "Button" being read in front of unblurred spoilers, and it didn't seem quite as necessary to explicitly state it's a button to reblur the spoiler. - I made it so that if you're selecting text in an unblurred spoiler it won't reblur. - I moved the `aria-live: polite` to the beginning as I had a report that Voiceover was reading unblurred text twice. I'm not certain that applying `aria-live` when it did was the cause, or that this is the solution, but it doesn't seem to cause any issues now.

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