March 30, 2023
During lived user accessibility testing, one pattern I've repeatedly found to be a problem for blind users is multiple inputs for one piece of data.
For example:
A Canadian postal code with separate inputs for each character
A driver's license number with three inputs, one for each set of five characters
A credit card date with separate inputs for month and year
Why is this done? Typically, it'…
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April 23, 2019
By default, the label for the core Search module text input in Drupal 8 is invisible, that is, it's present but visually hidden so users of assistive technology can read it. But what if you want to display it visually?
There's no way to do it through configuration, and little to no information about how to do it with code. I found where the visibility was being set, in SearchBlockForm.php in the…
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