Imagine browsing pages (routes), receiving alerts and notifications, having a countdown timer on the page, a progress bar or a loading, among others. Now imagine all this happening to people who have visual disabilities and who use screen readers.
The idea of this plugin is to tell the screen reader what is happening and primarily if you use single-page application.
Inspired by others in the community like:
https://haltersweb.github.io/Accessibility/spa.html (Example of how creating an accessible single-page application)
https://github.com/ember-a11y/a11y-announcer (Ember A11y community)
npm install -S vue-announcer
In your main.js
import Vue from 'vue' import VueAnnouncer from 'vue-announcer' Vue.use(VueAnnouncer)
In your App.vue
Example using vue-toasted
<template> <div id="app"> <vue-announcer /> <h2>App page</h2> <button type="button" data-va="toasted" @click="notify"> trigger notification </button> </div> </template> <script> export default { name: 'app' methods: { notify () { let message = `Hi, it's a toasted notification` this.$toasted.success(message) this.$announcer.set(message) // Sets the message that will be read by the screen reader automatically. } } } </script>
See this example:
Example link
For page changes (routes) to be announced automatically, you only need to pass the router object as a parameter at the time of installation.
import Vue from 'vue' import router from './router' import VueAnnouncer from 'vue-announcer' Vue.use(VueAnnouncer, {}, router)Key Data Type default
complementRoute
String has loaded
Example:
Vue.use(VueAnnouncer, { complementRoute: 'ha cargado' // e.g. in spanish }, router)
Note: These methods are registered on the $announcer
property injected into the Vue instance
$announcer.setComplementRoute(complementRoute)
If you need to set the complementRoute
option dynamically without reloading the application, for example if you're dynamically loading translations, you can use this method to update it.
export default { onTranslationsUpdated (translations) { this.$announcer.setComplementRoute(translations.complementRouteKey /* = 'ha cargado' */) } }Custom message to each page (optional)
You can set a property on the meta object, which will serve as information to get the message that will be announced to the screen reader on each page. e.g.:
{ name: 'home', path: '/', component: Home, meta: { announcer: 'Página de inicio' } }
When the page loads, the screen reader user will hear:
Página de inicio ha cargado
Note:
router.afterEach
to announce the route changes.https://vue-announcer.surge.sh/
git clone https://github.com/vue-a11y/vue-announcer.git vue-announcer // Run plugin cd vue-announcer npm install npm run dev // Run example cd examples npm install npm run dev cd .. // Run Cypress testing npm run test
Or run Cypress on interactive mode
It is a simple webpack template already installed and configured. After the commands just access the http://localhost:8080/
If you want a faster communication, find me on @ktquez And follow us on Twitter @vue_a11y
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