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Re: Question on accessible carousel implementation

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From: Robert Fentress
Date: Apr 7, 2016 9:00AM

Here is one I've been developing in jQuery, based, very roughly, on the WAI
example referenced earlier.
http://codepen.io/robfentress/pen/pyWveN

I'm still working on it, so I'd appreciate any feedback folks have.

Best,
Rob

On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Jan Richards < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Bryan's right that there is a lot to consider when designing an accessible
> carousel.
>
> One approach that I haven't seen discussed too much is to name the slides
> with text instead of numbers or other ambiguous identifiers. This helps the
> user understand what the options are even without operating the carousel.
>
> For example, see:
> http://www.bell.ca/Accessibility_services
> http://www.economist.com/ (does something similar but has some other
> accessibility issues)
>
> Cheers,
> Jan
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