Screen reader inaccessible column controls

[aardrian]

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Customers of ag-Grid

I am not a customer, but I am evaluating ag-Grid for a client, a potential ag-Grid customer.

Requesting Community Support

I understand this will be closed if inactive for one month. However, as a non-customer I have no other way to report bugs.

Providing a Reproducible Scenario

1. Go to the ag-Grid page promoting its accessibility.

2. Scroll to the bottom and find the only demo on the page, opening the Plunker in its own window (I provide that link for ease of accessing it, but still do step 1 so you have the latest ag-Grid-sanctioned accessible demo).

3. Using a screen reader, navigate to the column header for any column.

4. Attempt to find or activate the hamburger control that allows you to pin a column, size a column, reset a column, or filter a column.

Current behavior
No hamburger controls are announced nor can they be accessed.

Expected behavior
The hamburger control should announce as a disclosure widget with an accessible name describing it.

Please tell us about your environment:

• ag-Grid version: Whatever is the version in your live demo.

• Browser:

  • Windows 10, Internet Explorer 11, JAWS 2018
  • Windows 10, Chrome 76, JAWS 2018
  • Windows 10, Firefox 69, NVDA 2019.2

• Language: Whatever is the language in your live demo.

[davis4acca]

Hi,

Your ticket has been flagged as in_zendesk, it means that we recognize this as an issue worth investigating so we have moved it to our official support channel for customers (zendesk)

We will carry on there with the investigation and we will update you as soon as possible.

Thanks

[davis4acca]

Hi,

Thank you for your email. We are aware of this issue and have a feature request in our backlog:

You can follow the status of feature requests, bugs and releases using our pipeline:
https://www.ag-grid.com/ag-grid-pipeline/

If you are an ag-Grid Enterprise Customer, please raise this in our Zendesk support system - contact info@ag-grid.com for access. This is our primary channel for Support.

This is the reference and summary of the relevant issue:

AG-3223: ARIA / Accessibility / Keyboard navigation allow user to use filter and filter options by navigating with keyboard

AG-2629: Accessibility - Allow screen readers to access the column headers to apply sort and filtering capabilities

AG-3253: Accessibility / navigation Allow to navigate with keyboard though the context menu when it gets opened

[kiril-matev]

Hello!

Thank you for bringing this up with us.

I can see we quoted earlier a few different items which tracked accessibility requirements.

We have added a specific feature request in our backlog to track this individual requirement and implement it in the future.

You can track it with this reference:
AG-4392 [Accessibility] Add aria-label on a column header to announce the keyboard shortcuts for column menu/sorting if column has column menu or is sortable

You can follow the status of feature requests, bugs and releases using our pipeline:
https://www.ag-grid.com/ag-grid-pipeline/

Now that this requirement is recorded in our backlog, we will soon close the GitHub issue because we will not update it when this feature is added in a future version of AG Grid. The best way to get an update on this item is to sign up for AG Grid new release notifications. Once a new AG Grid version is released, look for the item reference above (AG-XXXX) on the changelog page to see if it's resolved in that version:
https://www.ag-grid.com/ag-grid-changelog/

Thanks again for bringing this up with us - we appreciate your time!