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Re: Using Accessible Sliders with Voiceover and Talkback

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Mar 6, 2015 9:40AM

I've done ARIA Slider testing with Talkback with Chrome and Firefix Voiceover on iOS and Narrator on Windows Phone 8 and the gesture and keyboard access is not supported to change the slider.

ARIA Combo boxes have similar mobile challenges.

Jonathan

> On Mar 6, 2015, at 8:28 AM, Graham Armfield < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> 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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