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From: Nancy Johnson
Date: Feb 3, 2010 7:30AM

I was given a code to put a slide show using jquery in a new high
profile site.

Each slide will have an image and some text with a link to an article or story.
When I tested it for keyboard accessibility. it sometimes could
access the link on the first slide and then would go into a loop,
starting at the top, and I couldn't access any links or scroll down
the page beyond the slide show without at mouse.

If I used JAWS and I am not an expert. It may have allowed one slide
to show up and I could link on it. It did allow me to go to the rest
of the page.

These slide shows are very popular, but is there any that are keyboard
accessible? The site is not live so I cannot show it

Nancy