WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

Carousel not accessible

for

From: Gurpreet kaur
Date: Jan 15, 2018 8:35AM

Hi accessibility experts,

We have a carousel with auto play functionality on website. As far as we know that the behavior for the screen reader user is that " when carousel comes in focus, space should be used to play/ pause the carousel". But in our carousel, space alone is not pausing or playing the carousel. We have to use control key along with space to perform the function. This is an issue with NVDA and JAWS both.

Without screen reader, we are able to use space key alone.

So my question is, Is this behavior acceptable according to WCAG requirements? We need some direction.

Thanks
Gurpreet