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From: bim.egan1
Date: Aug 5, 2012 12:31AM

Good to hear that a stop mechanism will be in place but how will users know that the Escape key will activate it?
Bim


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On 4 Aug 2012, at 22:40, Stella Mudd < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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
>>> >>> >>> >>
>> >> >> >>
> > >