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From: Al Sparber
Date: Feb 3, 2010 9:18AM

From: "Christian Heilmann" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> There is the YUI carousel which uses ARIA and is used by Yahoo:
> http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/carousel/carousel-ariaplugin.html

That seems quite inaccessible to keyboard users. If I'm a normal, typical,
blue collar keyboard user, I sees the widget. I wants to use the widget. I
see the little controls in its header. But alas, I cannot tab into them.

Tabbing brings to the images inside the widget. But I can only access the
first one. Pshaw.

I start to think, but then remember that great book I read in the early
years of the web, "Don't Make Me Think".

So, I leave.

Unless that's an unfinished project, the only way it would meet any
reasonable accessibility goals is if the user were forced to read a help
sheet.

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