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Re: Carousel not accessible

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From: JP Jamous
Date: Jan 15, 2018 9:15AM

Gurpreet,

It sounds to me as if you guys are using AccessKey and coding around it.

Before answering your question, the proper way for a carousel would be to have a pause and play button. You cannot expect your users to know that a space key would stop the carousel. However, if you provide a pause button then it is clear to keyboard and mouse users.

By expecting your users to anticipate what key to press, you are not in conformance of WCAG. The user is not told how to operate this carousel.

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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Gurpreet kaur
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2018 9:36 AM
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Subject: [WebAIM] Carousel not accessible

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