Tooltip / Popover: WCAG 2.1 - Content should stay visible on hover

[sprungmarker]

For WCAG 2.1 - 1.4.13 Content on Hover or Focus
https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/content-on-hover-or-focus.html

Content area for tooltips und popover should stay visible on hover i.e. with a mouse.
Especially for low vision users this is important.

Example WAI: https://codepen.io/Moiety/pen/LaPvWy

[patrickhlauke]

and it should be dismissible without needing to move the mouse/pointer

[sprungmarker]

@patrickhlauke yes i.e. ESC

[viktomas]

This would be also very useful when having buttons or links in the popover content.

Edit: We've used Popover to implement context menu in Gitter and the GIF on the following merge request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/merge_requests/1669 shows how staying visible on hover would benefit our use case

[RyanBerliner]

Is this something the team would be open to including in a v5 release? Making the tooltips both hoverable and dismissable to satisfy 1.4.13 is something I'd love to help get done. Both can be accomplished in a non-breaking fashion. Let me know and I can get a pr together if you all are on board.

[patrickhlauke]

@RyanBerliner if you want to have a crack at this, sure...go for it