As part of my cycle of going through useless tasks I rechecked the web UI of our old friend ChatGPT. Given the emormous amounts of money being progressively spaffed up the wall on LLMs by the feckless impotent men children of Silicon Valley I would expect making the UI of their product accessible is a task they were on top of.
Let’s take a mini tour of the billion dollar UI:
info about what?
<button aria-label="Open info modal"> Advanced Voice is now ChatGPT Voice </button>
- accname: Open info modal (via
aria-label) - visible label Advanced Voice is now ChatGPT Voice
- SC 2.5.3: Label in Name (Level A) fail
- how
aria-labelworks: Not so short note on aria-label usage – Big Table Edition
a possible better way
<button aria-haspopup="dialog"> Advanced Voice is now ChatGPT Voice </button>
- accname: Advanced Voice is now ChatGPT Voice
- visible label Advanced Voice is now ChatGPT Voice
- SC 2.5.3: Label in Name (Level A) pass
- programmatic indication (
aria-haspopup="dialog") that pressing the button will open a dialog
Lovin’ the suggestions…
- It’s ashame that non-mouse user cannot select anything beyond the first suggestion
- SC 2.1.1 Keyboard fail
- The text contrast of the suggestions is so poor that it is difficult to read, along with the placeholder grey label and light blue button text
- The textbox that isn’t a textbox, and has no name, the placeholder that isn’t a placeholder.
- The label that isn’t a label
Further reading
Same as it ever was
There has been no substantive improvement in the accessibility of the ChatGPT UI, its fairly obvious that accessibility is not and never has been a priority for OpenAI.
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