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From: Vincent Young
Date: Feb 2, 2012 3:18PM

I feel like there should be a standard non-obtrusive key combination that
stops all page animation. Maybe this should be announced on page load and
be the first item on the page? Or perhaps, prevent any speaking of
animating content via aria unless the user is actually interacting with the
widget and decides to start the animation. However, I do like the
aria-live="polite" implementation.

The slideshow implementation is very nice. I'm using JAWS 11 and IE8/FF
3.6 and noticed a few things:

1. The first image alt text is "People having fun skiing." while the
second is the same as the heading, "Need help finding a job?". I would be
consistent and describe the image.

2. In FF 3.6 tabbing around the carousel shifts content about, but seems to
be fine in FF 10.

3. I would have put things in an ordered list.

4. When selecting slides the content is read over and over again ad
nauseam.

Thanks for sharing.


On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 8:08 AM, David Farough
< <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:

> 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
>
>
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