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From: escetic
Date: Jan 15, 2018 11:24AM

Hi All,

The question here is whether it's normal for screen reader users to need to use the control key to pause/stop/play a carousel. I don't think it is.

Spacebar is almost a universal pattern or interaction for pausing/playing media or timed sequences, by my understanding. Does NVDA and JAWS have something going on which prevents spacebar alone from being used to pause/stop/play? Do JAWS and NVDA require developers to code it in a way which requires a modifier key such as control plus spacebar?


Rob C



> On Jan 15, 2018, at 10:35 AM, Gurpreet kaur < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> 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
>
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