Issue Summary

On the “Find an issue” page, the search results are not programmatically communicated to the users of a screen reader.

Note- This issue is also observed on "Edit Dashboard" page refer Screen Recording 2.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Navigate to “Projects” menu pop-up link and activate it.
2. Navigate to “View all project” link and activate it
3. Navigate to "kanban" link present in data table and activate it.
4. Navigate to "View all issues and filter" link and activate it.
5. Navigate to “Contains text” search field and perfrom search operation.
6. Observe that this dynamic update is not communicated to the users of screen readers.

Actual Result

When a user performs valid “Search” operation into “Contains” field, search results are getting updated  below and for invalid search operation the message such as “No issues were found to match your search”. displayed on page which are not announced by screen reader software.

The programmatic means of identifying the presence of search result message and suggestions are not used, so the assistive technologies such as screen reader softwares are not able to alert users to the presence of the status message/search results. Although this interaction is easier to understand for sighted users, it is not intuitive for the visually impaired.

Expected Result

Ensure that the search results/status messages that becomes available when the user search for inputted data in “Contains text” field should get announce by the screen reader software.

1. Provide the aria-live region for the search result message such as “No issue were found to match your search” which becomes available when the user performs an invalid search operation.
2. Screen reader users should be notified when the suggestions get updated on page along with the count of suggestions. For eg: “ 3 suggestions available for typed text.” Live regions can be used to achieve this behaviour.

If this is not feasible, a hidden instruction should be announced (when the search input receives focus), notifying the users of the dynamic change. For eg: Typing letters in the search input updates the search results, press up/ down arrow keys to view the list of suggestions.”

For more information on implementation, refer the following link : ARIA live regions implementation

Screen Recording 1

Screen Recording 2023-04-06 at 12.31.06 PM.mov

Screen Recording 2

[^Screen Recording 2023-04-27 at 2.15.34 PM.mov]

Workaround

Currently there is no known workaround for this behavior. A workaround will be added here when available

Environment

MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2020)
macOs Ventura  13.3.1
Chrome - Version 108.0.5359.124 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Firefox- Version 92.0 (64-bit)
Safari- Version 16.2 (18614.3.7.1.5)
JAWS- Version 2021
NVDA- Version 2021.2
Voiceover - Version Latest