Moodle

Skip block links are broken in Internet Explorer

Details

  • Type: Sub-task Sub-task
  • Status: Closed Closed
  • Priority: Major Major
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • Affects Version/s: 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9
  • Fix Version/s: 1.6.6, 1.7.3, 1.8.3, 1.9
  • Component/s: Accessibility
  • Labels:
    None
  • Environment:
    IE 6/ Windows XP pro
  • URL:
  • Affected Branches:
    MOODLE_16_STABLE, MOODLE_17_STABLE, MOODLE_18_STABLE, MOODLE_19_STABLE
  • Fixed Branches:
    MOODLE_16_STABLE, MOODLE_17_STABLE, MOODLE_18_STABLE, MOODLE_19_STABLE

Description

Tab through, press enter on a 'Skip block' link (at present a small white rectangle with dotted outline) and the browser seems to go to the next block/course content. However, tab again and you're still at the same link - you haven't skipped at all.

The fix will be in, theme/standard/styles_layout.css - code modified to,

.skip-block-to {
display: block;
height: 1px;
}

(Thanks to Bim Egan's Techshare presentation,
http://www.rnib.org.uk/wacblog/category/articles/too-much-accessibility/)

Issue Links

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Sub-task - Issues are sometimes broken into multiple sub-tasks. MDL-11695 Skip block links inaccessible for many keyboard-only users

  • Major - Major loss of function, incorrect output
  • Closed - The issue is considered finished, the resolution is correct. Issues which are closed should not be reopened.

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Nick Freear added a comment -

Fixed for HEAD and branches back to 1.6, tagged MERGED (Skip block links were introduced in Moodle 1.6).

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Nick Freear added a comment - Fixed for HEAD and branches back to 1.6, tagged MERGED (Skip block links were introduced in Moodle 1.6).
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Nick Freear added a comment -

Original report on Win/IE 6 - they were also broken in Internet Explorer 7, but the fix works for IE7 too.

(Win/Firefox 2 worked and works fine; Opera 9 - can't tab to links without TABINDEX anyway, grrrh!)

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Nick Freear added a comment - Original report on Win/IE 6 - they were also broken in Internet Explorer 7, but the fix works for IE7 too. (Win/Firefox 2 worked and works fine; Opera 9 - can't tab to links without TABINDEX anyway, grrrh!)
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Petr Škoda added a comment -

regression here, reopening - see attached image

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Petr Škoda added a comment - regression here, reopening - see attached image
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Petr Škoda added a comment -

hehe, my fault - needed to refresh the css
reclosing

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Petr Škoda added a comment - hehe, my fault - needed to refresh the css reclosing

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