[EuiBasicTable] Actions popover should announce it is a popup

[peteharverson]

The screen reader for a popup menu opened from actions cell in an EUI table should read "You are in a popup, press escape" like other popups. Currently it only reads "Exiting table".

Possibly related to #503.

Relevant WCAG Criteria: 3.2.3 Consistent Navigation

[cchaos]

Is this the same as/would be solve by #731?

[peteharverson]

@cchaos this does sound similar to #731. If you compare the screenreader behavior for EuiContextMenu with EuiPopover, you get much clearer instructions for the popover about entering the popover and then needing to press Escape to leave the popover. For the context menu, there is no message about pressing escape to leave the context menu. That requirement for including instructions on how to exit the context menu isn't currently listed in the description for #731 however.

[myasonik]

I don't think there's really anything specific to this implementation that we need to hold around this ticket for. EuiBasicTable just inherits all the other bits that we have captured in #731, #3889, and #4040.

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[peteharverson]

Happy for this to be closed if this requirement can be added specifically to one of #731, #3889, and #4040 as suggested in #1546 (comment).

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[peteharverson]

See #1546 (comment) - happy for this to be closed if this requirement can be added to one of #731, #3889, or #4040

[cee-chen]

What OS and screen reader are you using @peteharverson? I'm unable to fully reproduce this. For me MacOS + VO does announce "You are in a dialogue", albeit very briefly since focus is immediately hijacked to the first button in the popover (see also #5683). I don't get "Exiting table" from VO at all.

@1Copenut, any thoughts on this?

[peteharverson]

@constancecchen I'm on Windows and use the Chrome Screen Reader extension.

The behavior seems to have changed since I last tested this - when the actions popover in an EuiTable opens I now get 'Entering dialog', which I don't remembering getting at the time I raised this issue. Often I don't hear the full 'Entering dialog' message as the focus is immediately transferred to the first action item.

I'm happy for this to be closed if you think we are now meeting the current requirements.

[cee-chen]

Awesome, thanks a million Pete. Sounds like we improved our popover SR behavior at some point. I'll go ahead and close this since at least the dialog state is announced, although I'm +1 with you on this:

Often I don't hear the full 'Entering dialog' message as the focus is immediately transferred to the first action item.

I think we should address this in #5683 as another more holistic EuiPopover screen reader improvement. Please feel free to chime in on that issue, we could always use more voices with folks on various OS's and screen readers! ❤️