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Use of `<details>` in `Accordion`

Open mimarz opened this issue 8 months ago • 1 comments

Accessible Accordions has long been implemented using div, h*, and a button, as per WAI-ARIA guidelines.

One unfortunate side-effect of using the "traditional" implementation of Accordion is that display:none is often used to hide the collapsed content, which means users can't search for it using the built in browsers search (ctrl+f).

This could be remedied using hidden="until-found", but it lacks browser support.

details is often brought up as a semantic html replacement for this approach, however it lacks good screen-reader support.

Using this issue as an investigate-issue to collect information and decided on potential actions thereof.

Notes

  • https://www.hassellinclusion.com/blog/accessible-accordions-part-2-using-details-summary/
  • https://www.scottohara.me/blog/2022/09/12/details-summary.html
  • https://daverupert.com/2019/12/why-details-is-not-an-accordion/
  • https://tldrmarketing.com/tips-tricks/make-your-content-hidden-in-accordion-tabs-available-for-search-engines-with-hiddenuntil-found-attribute/

mimarz avatar Jun 04 '24 13:06 mimarz