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Re: Is this slider accessible to screenreader users?

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From: Loremy
Date: Dec 7, 2009 10:12AM

Hi Chris,

Thank you very much for your great hints.
At the moment, I have a lot of road work ahead, so, unfortunately, don't find the time to get into
YUI3.
Also thanks for pointing me to Dirk Ginader's accessible tabs, which seem to be very useful,
although it's not a slider/carousel and I am not enough of a developer to implement these tabs into
the carousel we are talking about.

Randi said:

> The thing I like about it though, is that if I click on a link, my
> screen reader says "heading level 2 books" or something, so I know the
> link has initialized. Often times the fancy stuff doesn't indicate
> that anything has happened. So in this case, I like that my reader is
> telling me what's going on.

So obviously, even with the ul.navigation a:focus set to "outline:none", which could easily be
changed, Randi was told that heading level 2 "books" was "initialized", i.e. brought into focus.

After reading your suggestions, I think you are saying it wouldn't even be enough to take away the
outline:none.
I did this and now have perfect keyboard access (for tab key navigation), but I guess what you are
driving at is that we are talking two kinds of keyboard access -- the one I have as a non-user of
AT, and the keyboard access that users of some AT still wouldn't have, even when taking away the
"outline:none" ?
Is that correct?

> 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.

Yes, that seems to be a big "caveat" one has to bear in mind with these accessibility efforts.

Thanks again,

Loremy