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Re: Regarding a slideshow plugin for jQuery

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From: Ryan Hemphill
Date: Nov 13, 2011 5:45AM

Having looked at the examples, I would have to agree that the slide widget
is not accessible, natively. From an ARIA persepctive, however - the
cycling slideshow could be made accessible if aria-live were added to the
content for slides as they come up. However, this poses another issue -
which is whether that could be annoying by itself.

The links themselves are only listed as links, so that is not helpful or
accessible.

I would suggest the following.

Create a button that is available for screen readers only (the old css
left-margin:-200px) and use that to turn on/off the cycling of the images,
include further hidden text that says the content come up as notifications
and tell them how they can use the widget to interact with the slideshow in
any other meaningful ways, such as clicking on the content to go to the
place where things can be downloaded.

That's all I got.

button command to start/stop, aria-live="polite", and explanations on how
to use it effectively.




On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Ryan Hemphill < <EMAIL REMOVED>
> wrote:

> 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
>> >
>> >