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Telephone-like numbers need formatting that they aren't telephone numbers #4228

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StephDriver opened this issue May 31, 2024 · 1 comment · Fixed by #4558
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Telephone-like numbers need formatting that they aren't telephone numbers #4228

StephDriver opened this issue May 31, 2024 · 1 comment · Fixed by #4558
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a11y Issues that relate to acessibility VPAT Issue prioritised for VPAT improvements.

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StephDriver commented May 31, 2024

When viewing a page on iOS in Safari (and other smartphone devices?) any number which could be a telephone number gets formatted as a link to 'call' that number. This is an a11y issue, as it makes the content potentially confusing. In particular issn numbers are being confused this way, but likely there are more kinds of numbers which could be affected.

Identified in Screen reader testing (#4194):

  • Sample 3, item 55. the issn number is picked up by ios Safari as if it were a telephone number (turns it into a link and offers to call it). This behaviour can, and should be overridden in the HTML. And similar overrides considered for all numbers we use that won't be telephone numbers!

It appears this situation can be avoided:
<meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no"/>. see Apple Documentation

@StephDriver StephDriver added the a11y Issues that relate to acessibility label May 31, 2024
@StephDriver StephDriver moved this to Sent to Dev in Accessibility Jun 4, 2024
@StephDriver StephDriver moved this from Sent to Dev to Triage in Accessibility Jun 27, 2024
@StephDriver StephDriver moved this from Triage to Sent to Dev in Accessibility Jun 27, 2024
@StephDriver StephDriver added the VPAT Issue prioritised for VPAT improvements. label Jun 27, 2024
@StephDriver StephDriver self-assigned this Dec 20, 2024
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ajrbyers commented Jan 6, 2025

Marked this as in review based on submitted PR: #4558

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