WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

Re: Is this slider accessible to screenreader users?

for

From: Christian Heilmann
Date: Dec 7, 2009 10:15AM

Keith Parks wrote:
> On Dec 7, 2009, at 8:53 AM, Al Sparber wrote:
>
>
>> Hi Randi,
>>
>> Try this page and let me know if you are able to read all of the
>> content:
>> http://www.projectseven.com/products/tools/horizontal-glider/accessibility/base.htm
>>
>>
>
> The "Poems" tab goes to Poems, but the "Novels" tab brings you to
> "Movies", and the "Movies" tab goes to nowhere, in Safari at least.
>
> But at least it *is* keyboard navigable.
>
>
To a degree. It is tab-able but not really usable with a keyboard. The
cursor keys is what makes it a proper tab control.

If we want to use ARIA and we want to build interfaces that are the same
as rich client interfaces we also have to get away from the idea of
tabbing as the way to access data on the web. Todd Kloots did some
amazing research work in this area:

http://ericmiraglia.com/blog/?p=132

The roaming tabindex for example makes sure you can access a massive
menu without tabbing 200 times:

http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices/#focus_tabindex
http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2009/02/23/managing-focus/