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Re: Accessible Image Gallery

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From: Stella Mudd
Date: Aug 4, 2012 3:40PM

Good point Bryan. I would only announce if the carousel has focus and for
good messure ensure a mechanism is used to stop the announcement which
would probably stop the animation as well such as pressing the escape key.

On Saturday, August 4, 2012, Bryan Garaventa wrote:

> Hi,
> There's a LinkedIn article at
> http://lnkd.in/vcvyQz
> That describes a technique for announcing text unobtrusively, and an
> accessible image carousel implementation at
> http://whatsock.com/modules/carousel_from_xml_module/demo.htm
> Which announces image descriptions for screen readers using this technique.
>
> A word of warning though, having things announced automatically may cause
> problems if a person is trying to navigate the page at the same time, since
> they won't know if what is being announced is on the same line or paragraph
> that is being navigated to, or if it is coming from somewhere else on the
> page. This can be very disorienting.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sarah Ward" < <EMAIL REMOVED> <javascript:;>>
> To: < <EMAIL REMOVED> <javascript:;>>
> Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2012 11:32 AM
> Subject: [WebAIM] Accessible Image Gallery
>
>
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > I'm currently working on designing an accessible image gallery and would
> > like the screen seader to announce when the new image is displayed to the
> > user by reading out the alt text (without moving focus to the image
> > itself). I haven't so far found many good examples of image galleries so
> > would appreciate some help.
> >
> > I thought this would be possible by adding an aria-live attribute to the
> > container element, and as the image was removed and replaced by a new
> one,
> > the screen reader would announce the new image's alt text. This seems to
> > work as I would like in VoiceOver, but in NVDA and JAWS (and potentially
> > others) it does not announce anything.
> >
> > Is there something in the spec that we have missed that indicates
> > aria-live should only work with text nodes?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sarah
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> > > > > > >
> > > >