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Re: Tiny clickable element: does this fail WCAG2?

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From: Lynn Holdsworth
Date: Jul 20, 2015 10:31AM

Hi Deborah,

This could be viewed as usability, except it would affect people with
poor vision or unsteady hands more than your average bear.

But I'm not sure where to fail it.

I don't know anybody who likes carousels :-)

KR, Lynn

On 20/07/2015, <EMAIL REMOVED> < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Well, it's a bad idea for the business.
>
> http://shouldiuseacarousel.com/
>
> (Thanks, Jared.)
>
> Are those small buttons accessible by the keyboard? If not, it fails
> WCAG. Do they enlarge when the page is assumed? If not, failure.
>
> But as Jared said about the previous question, no matter what, it's
> probably usability and accessibility failure. Carousels don't work. If
> the people in charge of the site want users to find the contentthat
> appears later in the carousel, the answer is, they probably won't.
>
> Deborah Kaplan
>
> On Mon, 20 Jul 2015, Lynn Holdsworth wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Sorry - another WCAG2 question for you:
>>
>> I'm auditing a carousel/slideshow that has those little dots for
>> choosing a slide. The dots are quite small, around 5px across. I'm
>> concerned that a user with poor vision or unsteady hands may find it
>> difficult to home in on these dots to click them. Since there's no
>> Previous/Next buttons, and the slideshow doesn't play automatically,
>> this is the only way to move between slides.
>>
>> Does this fail WCAG2? I really hope so, but I can't find a place to fail
>> it.
>>
>> Thanks again, Lynn
>> >> >> >> >
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