Only showing text for the first post in a thread when there is no JS execution breaks screenreaders ability to browse github. #154052
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Hello @superkuh - thank you for providing this feedback! We have filed this with our Accessibility team so that it can be reviewed and will follow-up here with any additional questions or updates. Thanks again! |
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Hey @superkuh – the accessibility team needs a bit more info to replicate your issue. Could you share details on the following?
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Hi. Thanks for responding. Specifically it's in github issue threads. Only the first, original poster's, text is available. All subsequent comments are just blank gray boxes with no text in them for my screenreader to read. The bug also happens other places but lets concentrate on this discrete example first. An example is vitiko98/qobuz-dl#150 Attached is is a screenshot (zoomed out so you can see). Use the custom-elements to wrap actual html text so that it fails gracefully. |
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Hello @superkuh – according to the testing team, this bug was fixed using the current test environment URL: vitiko98/qobuz-dl#150 with Orca. It was observed that the screen reader now announces all text content on the page. Can you confirm this is fixed for you now? Thanks! Test environment
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Back in Feb 2024 github finally fixed accesibility for those who need to actually be able to read text on HTML pages, https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/109376 .
But as of today only the first bit of text on any page is being returned if javascript is not able to be executed successfully and fully. This breaks pretty much all of github's functionality and accessibility for those using screenreaders without javascript.
This is bad. Please return the text to pages on github where there is supposed to be text. Blank boxes cannot be read by screen readers.
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