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Re: Is this slider accessible to screenreader users?

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From: Loremy
Date: Dec 7, 2009 9:42AM

Hi Jon,

> Sliders should be using ARIA and keyboard support:
> ARIA:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/#slider

Thanks, but I am not talking about a slider in this sense
"A user input where the user selects a value from within a given range."

I was asking about this web page
http://jqueryfordesigners.com/demo/coda-slider.html

As I said in an earlier posting,

> It's an example for one of the so-called sliders, where you can slide
> text or images without going to another page. This one looks like a file card
> with tabs at the top, where the tabs are links to the different "slides" with
> Lorem ipsum text (just placeholder text in pseudo Latin) on each of them.
> As soon as a mouse user clicks on a tab, the text or image slides off and
> the next one follows.
> I am wondering how accessible this is for screenrader users.

Loremy