Accessibility issues with Chrome browser.

leedc123

Hi again,

We have tested datatable so far with different browsers such as IE, Firefox and chrome.
However, it seems that the screen reader (e.g. JAWS) does not read datatable at all but it works greatly with IE and Firefox.
I also tried to listen to the example below;

http://datatables.net/release-datatables/examples/basic_init/zero_config.html

The screen reader does not read datatable and just moved into next section which happened in only Chrome browser even though 'alert' role is properly set into tbody to trigger screen reader to read.

I am not sure whether or not it is a known issue on datatable plugin.
Sorry, I have not deeply looked into issues related to accessibility on forum yet but I have found a few discussions for accessibility around but which did not help me.

The version of datatable that we are using is 1.9.4-2.
Thanks in advance.

allan

That sounds a little bit more like a Chrome issue. However, In 1.10 the alert role has been moved to the information element, to be a bit more polite to screen reader users. You could try 1.10 pre-beta and see how that goes for you - I'd certainly be interested in feedback: https://github.com/DataTables/DataTables/tree/1_10_wip/media/js

Allan

leedc123

Thank you for a quick reply.
I will check 1.10 version for testing accessibility.
Hoping that 'aria-label' attribute on head column to sort is solved as well.