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From: Jeevan Reddy
Date: Jul 25, 2011 1:09AM

Hi Loremy,
follow these URLs where you'll find demos on web 2.0 widgets which
has ARIA Enabled.
http://access.aol.com/aegis/#goto_slider

http://www.oaa-accessibility.org/examples/

Hope this might help you!


On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Loremy < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hi Jeevan,
>
> Thank you very much for your very useful feedback!
> This sounds promising, since I would like to integrate this kind of gallery
> into my website.
> Making the clickable images links won't be any problem, but I will have
> to look up how to use ARIA markup for gallery pictures.
> So far, I am only using the banner, navigation, and main roles.
> If anybody can point me to a good example for gallery pictures
> made accessible by WAI ARIA roles, I would be grateful for a hint.
> But I will also check myself.
>
> Thanks again for your kind reply!
>
> Any other comments will be much appreciated, too.
>
> Loremy
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeevan Reddy" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>
> > Hi loremy,
> > The gallery is nice, well operable by keyboard.
> > when i access the gallery with my NVDA screen Reader and Firefox 3.6, i
> > found the following observations
> > The images are not links or buttons, the screen reader user doesn't know
> > it's clickable even he/she clicks on those.
> > if you want to make it accessible to all, please use the clickable images
> as
> > links!.
> > if you want make it accessible to specific to screen reader users, Use
> ARIA
> > mark up!
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 5:25 AM, Loremy < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Could anybody please tell me if the gallery on the page
> >> linked below is accessible to the screenreader users among you?
> >>
> >> Before you head over to the page,
> >> (URL is http://finnrudolph.de/ImageFlow/Introduction )
> >>
> >> here is some info for you first:
> >>
> >> The page has three main parts --
> >> 1. Einleitung (an introduction in German).
> >> 2. Introduction (the same introduction in English), and
> >> 3. The demo of the gallery, consisting of 10 images.
> >>
> >> All three parts can be reached via the headings list of the
> >> Firefox screenreader plug-in "Fangs" that I am testing with.
> >>
> >> The ALT text for the images is simply "image 1", "image 2" etc.,
> >> so not informative at all, but the ALT text can be easily changed.
> >> Please note that images 8 and 9 are mistakenly switched
> >> in the demo.
> >>
> >> Any comments will be greatly appreciated.
> >>
> >> Thank you very much for any feedback!
> >>
> >> Here's the link again:
> >>
> >> http://finnrudolph.de/ImageFlow/Introduction
> >>
> >> Loremy
>
>