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From: Pierre Hachey
Date: Apr 5, 2017 4:20PM

Hi, I think carousels are a great thing.
Easy to make accessible with tabindex=0 and aria-label=next for aria-label=previous
Pete
From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > on behalf of Patrick H. Lauke < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: April 5, 2017 4:44:21 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Carousels are bad but....

On 05/04/2017 21:33, Patrick Dunphy wrote:
> Curious about people's thoughts on Netflix's movie/show carousel
> implementation. Focus indicators could be stronger but overall I thought
> it works well, esp for keyboard usage.
>
> I'm not advocating the use of carousels in general but maybe it works for
> Netflix because of the type of content (ie. endless lists of show/movie
> titles)?
>
> Thoughts?

Absolute edicts are always wrong ;)

In seriousness, Netflix's interface is less of a carousel in the "bad"
http://shouldiuseacarousel.com/ sense and more of a horizontally
scrolling list of items. Different scenario. So yes it's fine I'd say
(all other things being equal, i.e. it being coded accessibly).

P
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