Search widget Validation Warning!

[PhillipDewsBlogger]

I have been developing a child-theme on the genesis framework for a national blind charity and my brief included the criterion that the site passes website accesibility tests To WAI WCAG-AA and the W3C HTML5 Valaidation.

I got most of it done now but I have added the search widget to the top right header widget! I did customise it slightly in my functions.php file with this code....

add_filter( 'genesis_search_text', 'custom_search_text' );
function custom_search_text($text) {
    return esc_attr( 'Search NFBUK' );
}

Bit I am still getting a validation warning on that serch wiget! more specifically the section area.... Heere is the warning....
Warning: Section lacks heading. Consider using h2-h6 elements to add identifying headings to all sections.

and here is the code the validation checker provides...
get-area"><section↩id="search-3" class="widget widget_search"><div↩c

I would still love to use this widget as it works really well on the site, but does any of you know how I can stop this warning by editing the code...
Many thanks!
- Phillip Dews

[Christoph]

Hi Philip,

this great plugin takes care of most of the accessibility issues of the current Genesis version:

Genesis Accessible

It includes a section just for the search widget:

/** forms.php
*	Description: Adds label and id to the search forms
*	Author: Rian Rietveld
*	Plugin URI: http://genesis-accessible.org/
*	License: GPLv2 or later
*/

//* Replace the search form, function adds a real label and an id for the search input field
//* Based on the genesis_search_form with Genesis 2.0.2, keeps the filters

add_filter( 'get_search_form', 'wpaccgen_get_search_form_uniqueid', 20 );

/**
 * Replace the default search form with a Genesis-specific accessible form.
 *
 * The exact output depends on whether the child theme supports HTML5 or not.
 *
 * Applies the <code>genesis_search_text</code>, <code>genesis_search_button_text</code>, <code>genesis_search_form_label</code> and
 * <code>genesis_search_form</code> filters.
 *
 * @since 0.2.0
 *
 * @uses genesis_html5() Check for HTML5 support.
 *
 * @return string HTML markup.
 */
function wpaccgen_get_search_form_uniqueid() {

	$search_text = get_search_query() ? apply_filters( 'the_search_query', get_search_query() ) : apply_filters( 'genesis_search_text', __( 'Search this website', 'genesis' ) . '…' );

	$button_text = apply_filters( 'genesis_search_button_text', esc_attr__( 'Search', 'genesis' ) );

	$onfocus = "if ('" . esc_js( $search_text ) . "' === this.value) {this.value = '';}";
	$onblur  = "if ('' === this.value) {this.value = '" . esc_js( $search_text ) . "';}";

	//* Generate ramdom id for the search field (n case there are more than one search form on the page)
	$form_id = uniqid( 'searchform-' );

	//* Empty label, by default. Filterable.
	$label = apply_filters( 'genesis_search_form_label', '' );
	if ( '' == $label )  {
		$label = apply_filters( 'genesis_search_text', __( 'Search this website', 'genesis' ) );
	}

	$value_or_placeholder = ( get_search_query() == '' ) ? 'placeholder' : 'value';

	if ( genesis_html5() ) {

		if ( function_exists( 'genesis_a11y' ) ) {
			$form  = sprintf( '<form %s>', genesis_attr( 'search-form' ) );
		} else {
			$form = sprintf( '<form method="get" class="search-form" action="%s" role="search">', home_url( '/' ) );
		}

		$form .= sprintf(
				'<meta itemprop="target" content="%s"/><label for="%s">%s</label><input itemprop="query-input" type="search" name="s" id="%s" %s="%s" /><input type="submit" value="%s" /></form>',
				home_url( '/?s={s}' ),
				esc_attr( $form_id ),
				esc_html( $label ),
				esc_attr( $form_id ),
				$value_or_placeholder,
				esc_attr( $search_text ),
				esc_attr( $button_text )
		);

	} else {

		$form = sprintf( '<form method="get" class="searchform search-form" action="%s" role="search" >%s<input type="text" value="%s" name="s" id="%s" class="s search-input" onfocus="%s" onblur="%s" /><input type="submit" class="searchsubmit search-submit" value="%s" /></form>', home_url( '/' ), $label, $id, esc_attr( $search_text ), esc_attr( $onfocus ), esc_attr( $onblur ), esc_attr( $button_text ) );

	}

	return apply_filters( 'genesis_search_form', $form, $search_text, $button_text, $label );

}

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