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From: Graham Armfield
Date: Mar 6, 2015 9:26AM

I've been investigating accessible sliders and have a question about how
users with Voiceover and Talkback can successfully use them.

I've been taking as my example the sliders found on the Paciello Group ARIA
Slider Examples page:
http://files.paciellogroup.com/blogmisc/samples/aria/slider/

Whilst I can successfully use these sliders with NVDA/Firefox and JAWS/IE
on my laptop, I am struggling to get them to work with Voiceover on iOS7
and Talkback on Android 4.4.2.

In Voiceover I get a prompt that states something like "Swipe up or down to
change values" but doing so appears to do nothing. On Android there is no
prompt and I haven't worked out which gesture should use.

Please does anyone have some advice on this? Am I missing something, or are
the examples missing something?

Regards
Graham Armfield



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