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Screenreader support: Some input fields don’t readout the description
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Description

When focusing the different input fields of the search interface, there's a description set for each field by aria-describedby.

For screenreaders this is not working for These words Not these words One of these words File type and Sorting order. Seems that the aria-describedby is on the wrong DOM element in some cases.

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Change 950197 had a related patch set uploaded (by WMDE-Fisch; author: WMDE-Fisch):

[oojs/ui@master] Fix aria-describedby on MultiSelectWidgets

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/950197

Change 950197 merged by jenkins-bot:

[oojs/ui@master] Fix aria-describedby on MultiSelectWidgets

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/950197

WMDE-Fisch moved this task from Review to Watching / Epic on the WMDE-TechWish-Maintenance-2023 board.

Waiting for an OOjs release and deployment.

Change 953719 had a related patch set uploaded (by Catrope; author: Catrope):

[mediawiki/core@master] Update OOUI to v0.48.0

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/953719

Change 953719 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] Update OOUI to v0.48.0

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/953719

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