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Screen reader should not see the More/Less button
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Description

Screen reader users have no reason to expand or collapse the descriptions as they should have access to the descriptions already, see T291273: Text fields and related information should be accessible to screen readers. Instead the button is confusing and the action does not result in anything useful.

Requirements
  • Screen readers skip over more/less button and tab moves the user between the fields of the on the right side of the dialog

Event Timeline

Change 735580 had a related patch set uploaded (by WMDE-Fisch; author: WMDE-Fisch):

[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Hide more button on parameter descriptions for screen readers

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/735580

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Note, that this was an easy drive by fix, that was annoying me while testing. That's why it got fixed right away ;-)

Change 735580 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Hide more button on parameter descriptions for screen readers

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/735580

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thiemowmde moved this task from Demo to Done on the WMDE-TechWish-Sprint-2021-10-27 board.