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Medium severity accessibility fixes#963

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@sfisher sfisher commented Oct 22, 2025

This is mostly the same as previously but with these additional fixes in addition to the general things below based on what Andrew asked for:

  • Paging revision so that the place to enter a page number is on a separate line and different layout than the previous changes (which I think were also more accessible but not what he wanted to see).
  • Wanted specific fieldset, legend and label just for the selection of the metadata profile and also for the metadata rather than having it and the metadata combined in one step. So now have 5 steps instead of 4.
  • Changes to all of the major sections of the larger input forms to have fieldsets and legends (which messed with layout), even though I understood that divs with role="group" provided mostly the same functionality for screen readers, but maybe there was some distinction that required this rework.

Note: the dynamically generated mega-form with the add/remove sections and other things may not follow this same fieldset/legend pattern. He hadn't commented about it being a problem (and just being grouped as metadata), but if this becomes a concern then it may require quite a bit more rework for these sections and whatever dynamic stuff is going on may complicate things.


See the ticket #929 .

  • Adding legend sections
  • Contrast issues
  • Help text accessibility
  • Fixing the toggle accordion that didn't trigger with spacebar on search
  • updating gulpfile to allow es6 syntax (which is now 9-10 years old or so)
  • Pager to be accessible with submit "go" button after page number editable
  • a few other misc things
  • also changes in info repository branch medium-vpoat-fixes

The help system should now be compatible with screen readers since it uses aria-describedby to point at the full help text when a screen encounters a help icon.

In addition to the checklist in the ticket there is a spreadsheet that Andrew shared with us for these. I don't want to put the link in this ticket, but would be happy to share the link privately (if it works, but Andrew may need to invite you also). Adam has this spreadsheet, also, since it's what he made the tickets from. Just go to the tab to see all issues and filter to show only medium-visiblity items.

…doesn't screw up the entire visual layout (which it did for a while).
… ChatGPT gave me info about what it thought was wrong and how to address the feedback
…ce the information is presented with aria-describedby
…the actual metadata entry. This seems to be what Andrew is asking for here.
… seemed as though div with role of group was supposed to be the same for accessiblility from what I understood, but they want it that way so changed it all. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Looks good to me. I only had a small comments, but it looks good.

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sfisher commented Oct 24, 2025

Made changes requested and merging. Thanks, @jupiter007 !

@sfisher sfisher merged commit 8b0b484 into develop Oct 24, 2025
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