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Re: Is this slider accessible to screenreader users?

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From: Al Sparber
Date: Dec 7, 2009 10:57AM

From: "Christian Heilmann" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >

>> To be honest, we're not completely sold on ARIA at this point in time.
>> It's
>> interesting to view as a future solution. Our accessibility testing group
>> is
>> small, but comprised of people who have real disabilities and we tend to
>> keep things as simple as possible. While our results tend to sometimes be
>> at
>> odds with specifications authors, they do seem to work well for actual
>> users. But then again we are not sold on AJAX either. If we were, we
>> would
>> likely be far more compelled to embrace ARIA and the like.
>>
>> Our "carousel" was just released so we are still fleshing out potential
>> accessibility updates. Hopefully, any tweaks we make can be as simple as
>> possible :-)
>>
>>
> Great. We throw all this information above out for free and write the
> explanations for exactly that use case. There is not much sense in 40
> people all doing the same research and arguing results. But then again
> this is the impression I get of the accessibility world as a whole as
> otherwise we'd have much more open source products.

I'm afraid I don't understand your point. Please do understand that I don't
want to be adversarial. We put a lot of thought into accessibility and we
firmly believe that no solution is ever perfect. The holy grail, at least to
us, is finding the best compromise for the times :-)

--
Al Sparber - PVII
http://www.projectseven.com