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Re: Is this slider accessible to screenreader users?

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From: Christian Heilmann
Date: Dec 7, 2009 7:57AM

Loremy wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
>
>> It seems to work pretty well, particularly when activating the links or navigating
>> by headers with a screen reader. A person who uses a screen reader and a
>> magnifier in combination may have problems if they attempt to navigate by
>> heading because the article remains partially obscured after navigating to the heading.
>>
>
> Thank you very much for these details!
> It will be interesting to hear the opinion of several among you -- as Randi's post showed, there are
> different experiences even among screenreader users.
>
> Loremy
>
The other big issue is that there is no keyboard access for this slider.
We've recently released a blog post on how we made the carousels on the
Yahoo homepage keyboard and screen reader accessible using YUI. Check
this out:

http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2009/10/accessible_tabs.html

More information of the YUI3 implementation in detail:
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/3/examples/node-focusmanager/node-focusmanager-2.html


If you are dead set on jQuery, here's a solution using this framework:
http://blog.ginader.de/archives/2009/02/07/jQuery-Accessible-Tabs-How-to-make-tabs-REALLY-accessible.php


Also, I'd be very wary of people's personal experiences with this. I
work with three different blind developers and each of them sees my
solutions in varying states of usefulness.

regards,

Chris