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From: Ryan Hemphill
Date: Nov 13, 2011 5:27AM


The lorem ipsum is typical for designers - they use it as content when they
want to demo a design but want to make sure the people being presented to
don't focus on the content itself..

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 12:56 AM, Kevin Chao < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> I'm using Firefox and NVDA. In both examples, i'm able to see slide
> number, where slide content should be, next/previous controls, and
> links to jump to specific slide.
>
> However, in standard first example, the content is not at all
> accessible, it seems to be displayed in an graphic/image.
>
> Second basic example seems to be accessible, but text is not in English:
> (slide 1)
> "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do
> eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad
> minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut
> aliquip ex ea commodo consequat."
>
> The user interface and experience of basic example is very nice and
> accessible though.
>
> Kevin
>
> On 11/12/11, curobs < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> > I am wondering if this slideshow plugin for jQuery is accessible?
> > http://slidesjs.com/
> >
> > Here's a demo on how it looks un-styled,
> > http://slidesjs.com/examples/simple/
> >
> > I have not used screenreaders, but based on little of what I know about
> > them, is this something that screenreaders could navigate easily and
> > logically? I was wondering how a screenreader would read the main text
> after
> > it reads the Next link, considering that it follows after the main text?
> I
> > suppose I could move the Previous and Next links to the top of the slide
> > heading (e.g. "Slide 1").
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > Carrie
> >
> >