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Re: Is this slider accessible to screenreader users?

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From: Geof Collis
Date: Dec 7, 2009 8:54AM

HI Loremy

That might be the problem. If you could give some indication that
something had changed it might not seem as inaccessible as you think. :O)

cheers

Geof



At 10:45 AM 12/7/2009, you wrote:
>Hi Geof,
>
> > I'm using JAWS 10.0 with IE 8 and I dont experience anything, nothing
> > on the page changes when I clikc the links.
>
>Thanks a lot for your feeedback -- that's really a pity, since I can
>image that JAWS 10 with IE 8
>might be quite common a combination among screenreader users.
>I would love to use such a slider, but there seem to be quite a few drawbacks.
>
>Unfortunately, the text on each slide is the same Lorem Ipsum filler
>text, so any blind tester
>couldn't really tell for sure whether anything actually changed to boot.
>
>Loremy
>
>