[Support request] search bar anchor title attribute

[Shane]

Trying to make our website meet WCAG 2.0 for accessibility and one item that needs to be met is adding a title tag to the search bar anchor . The tag in questions looks like this

<a href="#">

Where / How can i add a title attribute to this tag?

Thank you for your time in advance.

[Shane]

Sorry. the code is this.

<a aria-label="Open Search Bar" href="#">

[Leo]

Hi there,

Are you referring to the GP’s navigation search? If so you can modify the output with this filter:
https://docs.generatepress.com/article/generate_navigation_search_output/

Let me know if this helps 🙂

Documentation: http://docs.generatepress.com/
Adding CSS: http://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-css/

[Shane]

Trying to meet WCAG 2.0 compliance and we get notified that anchor tag for the search bar requires a title attribute. I have found and manually added a title tag to the theme generatepress/inc/structure/navigation.php file on lines 113, 322, and 357 to comply however this will reset everytime there is an update to the theme. Could you look into adding a title tag to the anchor tag for the Search bar, and/or guidence to prevent updates from overriding the manual inclusion of the title attribute?

[Tom]

We likely won’t add it by default, as the aria-label attribute handles it better for screen readers.

However, I’ll look into filtering the menu item so it’s possible to add it when needed.

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Adding CSS: http://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-css/
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[Ricky]

I am having the same issue with Shane.

If there’s option to add a title attribute to the code it will be perfect.

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