Disabling styles breaks accessibility

  • Resolved Guillaume G.

    (@g4ll4is)


    1 week, 4 days ago

    When styles are disabled, the tooltip text merges with the content around, making the sentence impossible to understand.

    Example, where “wookie” is glossary term :

    Han Solo met a wookiee and they became friends.

    Disabling styles will make the sentence look like :

    Han Solo met a wookieeA tall hairy humanoid fictional race from Star Wars, originating from the forested planet Kashyyyk and they became friends.

    A solution would be to have some kind of fallback, so disabling styles keeps content easy to understand :

    Han Solo met a wookiee (A tall hairy humanoid fictional race from Star Wars, originating from the forested planet Kashyyyk) and they became friends.

    Note that this is an accessibility issue, as it make WCAG 1.3.2 criterion fail.

    Some user agents (screen reader, crawlers, etc.) will use content as it is with styles disabled.

    • This topic was modified 1 week, 4 days ago by Guillaume G..
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  • Plugin Author Daniele Scasciafratte

    (@mte90)

    1 week, 4 days ago

    HI,
    This can happens with page builder and other solution that alter the WordPress hook system.
    We are injecting automatically when the_content filter is used but those stuff alter the flow and create issues that are not easy to fix.
    There are also other plugins creating this issues but in the free version we offer support as it is, on the pro version we debug and see if we can do something and maybe finding the plugin generating conflicts.

    In this cases we suggest to disable the autoinjection and use the shortcode available in the PRO version that l’ets you define in your theme just the content area https://docs.codeat.co/glossary/shortcodes/#parse-content-premium

    Thread Starter Guillaume G.

    (@g4ll4is)

    1 week, 2 days ago

    Hi @mte90,

    I’ve reproduced the issue on a fresh, up-to-date, blank WordPress installation, with only Glossary PRO and Twenty Twenty Five installed and active.

    I’ve made no specific config, beside activating tooltips on Posts.

    Is the behavior still expected ?

    Thanks

    Plugin Author Daniele Scasciafratte

    (@mte90)

    1 week, 2 days ago

    No it shouldn’t happen but without a link to me is difficult to do debugging, maybe it isn’t loaded the css or the plugin is executed multiple times.
    I am not able to replicate the issue.

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