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From: Robert Fentress
Date: Aug 25, 2014 11:55AM

Also, the page you referenced made mention of visual CAPTCHAs, but did
not say if CAPTCHA alternatives were supported?

Thanks,
Rob

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Robert Fentress < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Thanks, Andrew. That is helpful.
>
> So it appears from the document you referenced that, by default, the
> carousel widget does not include alternative text for images, but that
> a system administrator with sufficient knowledge could customize the
> widget to do so. Is that correct? Is the default carousel
> keyboard-navigable and can it be paused?
>
> Also, am I correct in understanding that there is no native support
> for the longdesc attribute on images, but that this could similarly be
> added with some custom code by a system administrator?
>
> Finally, it looked like in previous versions of Adobe Experience
> Manager (AEM) that the ExtJS framework was used for the default
> widgets in the web application interface, such as dialogs, trees and
> grids, and that these widgets could be used in the produced websites,
> as well. My understanding is ExtJS had very good WAI-ARIA support.
> However, AEM now appears to use the Granite UI and I am not familiar
> with this. Does this support WAI-ARIA to a similar extent?
>
> Best,
> Rob
>
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Andrew Kirkpatrick < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> Rob,
>> We have a best practices document that you may want to take a look at, located at http://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/cq/current/administering/supporting-accessibility.html
>>
>> If you have questions beyond the content of this document, feel free to contact me, either on this list or individually.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> AWK
>>
>>