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Re: Jquery slide show and keyboard accessibility

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From: D A
Date: Feb 3, 2010 10:33AM

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

I don't know one off the top of my head, but...

If you know some one handy with jQuery, they could potentially add that for you.

It's fairly easy to delegate events to a master event.

So, while the next slide might be triggered by a click event on a
specific anchor tag, you could also have that same click event
triggered via a key press event, or a focus on another object on the
page.

Another resource to watch is the Filament group's work with jQuery:

http://www.filamentgroup.com/lab

They are doing a lot with jQuery trying to incorporate more ARIA techniques.

I will say an index of some sort listing jQuery plugins that are
tailored for accessibility would be a nice resource to have.

-Darrel