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"Welcome to Wikipedia" CSS modal dialogue should be a11y compliant
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As of 21 May 2016, clicking "edit" on the en.Wikipedia Mediawiki instance shows the text for editing, but then overlays it with a model text box saying:

"Welcome to Wikipedia

Anyone can edit, and every improvement helps.
Thank you for helping the world discover more!"

This dialogue is unlikely to help users focused on keyboard input methods (eg. those with accessibility needs/alternative input methods, or those who are already familiar with Wikipedia editing via the keyboard).

In the short-term the dialogue should be completely disabled/reverted until a more satisfactory and a11y-compliant solution can be developed.

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sladen created this task.May 21 2016, 9:57 AM
Restricted Application added subscribers: Zppix, Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptMay 21 2016, 9:57 AM
Danny_B added a project: Accessibility.May 21 2016, 10:00 AM
sladen mentioned this in T133800: Add the "welcome" dialog (with button to switch) to the wikitext editor.May 21 2016, 10:24 AM
• AlexMonk-WMF added projects: VisualEditor, VisualEditor-MediaWiki.May 21 2016, 3:17 PM
TheDJ closed this task as a duplicate of T135808: "Start editing" popup can't be dismissed without clicking "Start editing".May 21 2016, 11:12 PM
TheDJ subscribed.May 21 2016, 11:14 PM

The OOjs UI dialogs usually behave pretty well. This is going wrong mostly due to a focus problem. I have merged it into the other ticket. They are basically the same problem (though not entirely the same complaint).

Nemo_bis subscribed.May 22 2016, 5:48 AM

In the short-term the dialogue should be completely disabled/reverted until a more satisfactory and a11y-compliant solution can be developed.

This may be a suitable solution, but the other tasks offers some other proposals too.

Danny_B mentioned this in T136076: Roll back "Start editing" popup feature.May 24 2016, 10:42 AM
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