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From: David Farough
Date: Feb 2, 2012 9:06AM

Hi Sarah:
Is there a mechanism to stop the rotation in the presentation.

I am using the current version of Jaws and Internet explorer 8. I was
hearing the content spoken as the pages changed, but I noticed that Ie
was a bit sluggish when tabbing through items. I suspect that this
constant changing of content may cause performance issues for some
access technologies. Has anyone raised this issue? I feel that their
should be a stop button preferably at the top of the page with the skip
nav links. As I was tabbing around, I continued to hear the new content
as it changed. I would have preferred to hear the newly focussed item
instead.

I wonder also if it would not be better if the rotation of content
stopped when the tabs had focus. this would allow the user to bring up
the content of choice as they focussed on it.

David Farough
Application Accessibility Coordinator/coordonateur de l'accessibilité
Information Technology Services Directorate /
Direction des services d'information technologiques
Public Service Commission / Commission de la fonction publique
Email / Courriel: <EMAIL REMOVED>
Tel. / Tél: (613) 992-2779

>>> "Bourne, Sarah (ITD)" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > 08:34 AM Thursday,
February 02, 2012 >>>
Mass.Gov has a "slideshow" on it's homepage, which I consider to be a
variant of a carousel. We're actually quite proud of it and will
probably blog about it pretty soon. The latest tweak was put into
production yesterday. It was actually quite tricky to get it to be fully
usable for keyboard-only users as well as screen reader users!

If anybody notices any issues we missed, please let me know.

sb

Sarah E. Bourne
Director of Assistive Technology &
Mass.Gov Chief Technology Strategist
Information Technology Division
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
1 Ashburton Pl. rm 1601 Boston MA 02108
617-626-4502
<EMAIL REMOVED>
http://www.mass.gov/itd