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From: Loremy
Date: Jul 25, 2011 10:27AM

Hi Jeevan,

thank you very much for trying to help me!

I also came across these pages when googling for ARIA enabled
gallery solutions, but I think the gallery I mentioned would have to be
re-written in large parts, which is a feat I don't have the JavaScript
skills to accomplish.

I guess accessibility is always a compromise.
The gallery is the only part of my site that is not accessible to screen readers,
so, as a compromise, I am thinking of providing a link for screen reader users
to somewhere below the gallery or on a different page where they will find
descriptions of the gallery images. Perhaps some of the blind members of
this forum can give me a hint which of these two compromises is preferred
by screen reader users, or, whether such a compromise is appreciated
by blind users at all.

Thank you very much for any feedback!

Loremy


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeevan Reddy" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 9:06 AM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Is this gallery accessible to screenreader users?


> 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