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Re: Is this slider accessible to screenreader users?

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From: Jon Gunderson
Date: Dec 7, 2009 9:09AM

Sliders should be using ARIA and keyboard support:

ARIA:
http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/#slider

DHTML Style Guide:
http://dev.aol.com/dhtml_style_guide#slider

Examples:
http://test.cita.illinois.edu/aria/slider
http://wiki.codetalks.org/wiki/index.php/Set_of_ARIA_Test_Cases#Slider

Jon





---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:55:15 +0000
>From: Christian Heilmann < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Is this slider accessible to screenreader users?
>To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>
>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
>
>