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Re: accessible rotating image scripts?

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From: Geof Collis
Date: Jan 22, 2010 4:33PM

Hi Christian

What would have made this even better would be to lose the list and
have it grab the screen readers focus every time an image changed so
that we wouldn't have to use the tab key and move back and forth to
read the alt text. That would be truly accessible.

cheers

Geof


At 04:29 PM 1/22/2010, you wrote:
>Jeremy Merritt wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Does anyone utilize any scripts for displaying a series of
> automatically refreshing images in an accessible format?
> >
> > This may be a long shot, but ideally, I am looking for a way to
> cycle through a selection of images automatically, and display
> associated text (i.e. a quote or a caption) for each photo. There
> would need to be a way to (at the very least) pause the rotating
> images to accommodate those with visual/cognitive disabilities.
> >
> > I welcome any pointers/suggestions
> >
>That is terribly easy to build.
>
>I've had a demo in the 6th chapter of my book:
>
>http://beginningjavascript.com/Chapter6/exampleAutoSlideShow.html
>
>I can extend that to show a caption below.
>
>
>