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Hi! Thanks for all the work on an organized and useful website. I've found biocViews like this one https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/BiocViews.html#___ExperimentData produce tables that are inaccessible with a screen reader. I've tested on Mac with Safari and Chrome. The screen reader sees that there is a table and it produces a description of the number of rows and columns but it cannot read the contents.
Also, while submitting this question, I am unable to interact with the "type of post" field.
hello. Thanks for your post, I'll post this also to the biocwebsite channel on the Bioconductor community slack.
https://community-bioc.slack.com/join/shared_invite/zt-2z5zmgt5s-_7bs6O0M~x_hSSJvlG6b8Q#/shared-invite/email
I second the thanks for this post. I just tried the screen reader with macOS and see that the handling of our package tables is poor. However, I could not find an example table that the reader processed in a natural way. Do you have any examples?
I suspect we could not do much in short order to improve the tables at bioconductor.org. But we might be able to reprocess the table data into a more accessible format, and host at a different address. If you can point to some examples of more accessible table formatting, we can put some effort into this.
I watched and that shows some principles that are not followed in the markup for the tables at bioconductor.org. We'll discuss options to improve the situation in core.
Added issue to website github repo: https://github.com/Bioconductor/bioconductor.org/issues/304