Evergreen

  1. Bug #1894900
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 1894900

Revision history for this message
William C. Szwagiel (wszwagiel) wrote : Re: OPAC Meta Refresh

Confirmed in Evergreen 3.9.1
Google Chrome 109.0.5414.120

We are working on increasing the accessibility of Evergreen for our patrons, and we hit an error on the myopac pages with regard to page refreshes and redirects. We are using the WAVE browser extension to detect accessibility issues in the pages.

This is the error that we received when loading up any of the MyOpac pages:

The page is set to automatically change location or refresh using a <meta> tag.

Pages that automatically change location or refresh pose significant usability issues, particularly for screen reader and keyboard users.

How to Fix It
Remove the <meta> refresh and give the user control over time-sensitive content changes.

Steps to replicate:
Go to the OPAC home page.
Log in as a user
Use the wave extension to diagnose the page for accessibility issues.

The meta tag that is causing this issue is located at the top of the templates_bootstrap/opac/parts/base.tt2 template file:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="[% ctx.authtime %]; url=[% ctx.home_page %]" />