Review tooltip accessibility

Open notlee opened this issue 6 years ago • 3 comments

Are our tooltips accessible? Can we improve tooltip accessibility or our recommendations around using them? E.g. There is no announcement of tooltip content when a tooltip is opened.

May 23 '19 13:05 notlee

showOnHover is an issue: https://github.com/Financial-Times/o-tooltip/pull/135

Nov 25 '20 13:11 notlee

Great advise here:

https://inclusive-components.design/tooltips-toggletips/
https://sarahmhigley.com/writing/tooltips-in-wcag-21/

I don't know how we replace this kind of modal with a more accessible alternative. It includes lots of content including headings and interactive elements:

Nov 08 '21 13:11 notlee

The ARIA Practices Group are building out an example tooltip which adheres to the WAI ARIA Authoring Practices -- https://cdpn.io/Moiety/debug/LaPvWy https://github.com/w3c/aria-practices/issues/127

Nov 08 '21 15:11 JakeChampion