Site Rating Reviews Accessibility

  • Resolved chipmccain

    (@chipmccain)


    6 years, 10 months ago

    Hi Paul, I’ve started using Site Reviews on my site chipmccainmusic.com and for the most part like the plugin. However the star rating on the submission form is not accessible via a screen reader. Is there anyway of making so a person using a screen reader can access it? I’m going to disable star ratings for now, and I guess in my case they really aren’t important, but it is a cool feature and would mind having access to it. Thanks and have a great day.

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  • Thread Starter chipmccain

    (@chipmccain)

    Well, after reading the wiki on it I don’t guss I’ll be disabling star ratings afterall.

    Plugin Author Gemini Labs

    (@geminilabs)

    I’ll look into adding official support for screen readers in the next version.

    Thread Starter chipmccain

    (@chipmccain)

    That would be awesome. If I could make a suggestion, if possible a dropdown or radio buttons are actually the most screen reader accessible. mouseovers and onclicks are not the best option in my opinion, but like most other blind folks, I’ll will be happy with any accessibility. Thank you so much for such a cool little plugin and I look forward to having it accessible.

    Plugin Author Gemini Labs

    (@geminilabs)

    The Star Rating widget actually does control a dropdown. Due to a bug in the plugin stylesheet this dropdown is hidden from screen readers, but it is not supposed to be.

    You can fix this by adding the following custom CSS to your site:

    .gl-star-rating[data-star-rating] > select[name=rating] {
    visibility: visible!important;
}
    • This reply was modified 6 years, 10 months ago by Gemini Labs.
    Plugin Author Gemini Labs

    (@geminilabs)

    @chipmccain I have fixed the accessibility issues with the star-rating control in v2.15.1. This should solve your issue until official A11y support is added.

    Please update to v2.15.1 and let me know how it goes.

    Thread Starter chipmccain

    (@chipmccain)

    You my man … are awesome. I had added the custom css, but it didn’t fix the problem, but the update sure has. Thanks so much. Works like a champ.

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