Critical: Faceted Browse not available to screen readers

The right column of Faceted Browse pages (#section-content) has aria-hidden="true". As a result, screen reader users cannot access the faceted browse results or pagination. aria-hidden="true" removes the section from the accessibility tree, and thus screen readers skip directly from the facets to the footer.

I might be misunderstanding the intended the functionality here, but based on our testing with multiple browsers, this is a really crucial accessibility issue needing a fix.

Based on asset/js/site/page.js it’s supposed to toggle to aria-hidden="false" at some point, but we haven’t been able to achieve that in any of our tests; the attribute remains aria-hidden="true" no matter what we do, screen reader-wise or keyboard-wise.

Thanks for flagging this and making an issue on the Github repo. A fix is in the works!

Excellent! Thanks so much for letting us know, Sharon. Appreciate it!