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From: Tim Harshbarger
Date: Dec 20, 2017 10:03AM

I wonder if this might be an example of the difference between making user interfaces accessible and designing accessible user interfaces.

Making the user interface accessible basically involves ensuring someone can click the buttons and move to the next or previous slide. If they want to know if they are on the right slide, they can use a screen reader to explore the interface--that is if they use a screen reader.

Designing an accessible user interface means understanding how people might use the interface to perform tasks. For example, adding a live region to read some or all of the slide after the button is pressed to advance the slide, facilitates the task of letting a screen reader user know if they want to spend more time exploring that slide or if they need to go to the next slide to find what they might be looking for.

One approach just looks at the UI and makes it accessible. The other approach is to look at how people will utilize that UI and figure out how to facilitate those tasks in an accessible manner.

Just a thought.

Thanks,
Tim