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Bug 16741 - Improve accessibility of the search page
Improve accessibility of the search page
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Search (Other open bugs)
1.14.x
All All
: Normal enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Aaron Schulz
: accessibility, shell
Depends on:
Blocks:
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Reported: 2008-12-21 12:15 UTC by Rémi Kaupp
Modified: 2009-07-15 17:24 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---


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Description Rémi Kaupp 2008-12-21 12:15:31 UTC
Following recommendations by fr:User:Lgd, there would be some improvements which could be done on the search form to improve its accessibility, according to W3C's WCAG norms. It is a particularly important page, and even more for people with special needs. These are:

* for each field, having a label element with attribute containing the id of the field.
* if showing a label is not ergonomic, use the title attribute of the field itself to indicate its use.
* Use title elements to structure the page: h2 for mw-search-numberresults, h2 on the "Advanced search", h2 for the "Sister projects".
* correct the use of elements fieldset and legend: the legend of fieldset should be "Namespace" in order to complement the labels of the tickboxes.
* add a "title" attribute on the links which allow selecting how many results per page should be shown to make them more explicit outside of their context, such as title="show 20 results", title="show 50 results", etc.
* add a title attribute on the links "more" in the "Sister projects" section, to make them more explicit outside of their context.
* Use ol elements and not ul to list results.

Hope it all makes sense!

Thanks.
Comment 1 Aaron Schulz 2009-01-02 20:32:35 UTC
Some of these make sense, like the title attributes on nav links for example.

ol would be confusing as it restarts each time you press "next". Not sure about the h2 stuff either.

Check out test.wikipedia for how the search is being tweaked.
Comment 2 Aaron Schulz 2009-02-22 17:34:07 UTC
Can we get the new search UI rolled out beyond test.wp ($wgUseOldSearchUI = false) ?
Comment 3 Nemo 2009-04-15 18:54:31 UTC
I think that it should be possible to have a real advanced search page like in all search engines, to use not enough known features such as prefix:, exact phrase etc. ([[Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2008-11-10/Search_engine]]).
Comment 4 Trevor Parscal 2009-06-15 23:22:44 UTC
The changes which have been made by rainman and myself have satisfied many of these concerns, but to use the new search UI you must still configure

$wgUseOldSearchUI = false;

This will be changing soon, as these changes will be rolled out to all Wikimedia projects and the old search UI will be deprecated.
Comment 5 Chad H. 2009-07-15 17:24:55 UTC
New search UI is in trunk, deployed on WMF, etc. I think we can count this as FIXED. 

Issues with the new UI need their own bugs :)

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