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From: escetic
Date: Jan 15, 2018 2:19PM

Actually, what's happening is our carousel works fine with keyboard only, without NVDA/JAWS. Space pauses the carousel, arrow keys work, etc.

It does NOT work with NVDA and JAWS using these keyboard combinations.

But we found that NVDA/JAWS must use these same keys in combination with Ctrl (e.g. Ctrl+Space, Ctrl+arrow) in order to work the same.

Our devs haven't done anything to listen for ctrl, specifically. The code only listens for onkeypress of arrow and spacebar. We think NVDA may only trigger with onclick but not onkeypress.

We're trying to figure out if needing to use ctrl-spacebar is normal and expected for NVDA/JAWS users in situations where an app is listening for the spacebar onkeypress. My understanding is that the same interactions should be possible for both keyboard only and screen reader users. If a carousel can be paused with spacebar, it should also be pausable with spacebar for NVDA and JAWS users, right?

From what I'm reading here, I suspect ctrl+key is not normal, I don't see any discussion anywhere about this and I think people are actually confused by the question.

We agree that a button would definitely be better but unfortunately that's not feasible so we must make the carousel accessible as it is.



> On Jan 15, 2018, at 3:20 PM, Birkir R. Gunnarsson < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> Another thing that could be happening here is that you code the
> element to respond to keyboard events (onkeyup or onkeypress). But
> screen readers, in default browse mode, fire the onclick event when
> enter or space bar is pressed.
> The solution could be as simple as adding an onclick event to whatever
> the control is that you are using.
> Since the onclick event is synthetic, make sure there is no visual
> overlay that captures the onclick event before it gets to the element.
> All that being said, having a simple play/pause button (coded with the
> <button> element) is the most straight-forward solution to this, I
> think.
> Remember, auto playing content does not only bother screen reader
> users, the carousel must be stoppable for all users. Having a button
> would achieve that.
>
>
>
>> On 1/15/18, Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> From the description it is not clear if space works anywhere on the page or
>> requires a certain control to be focused. Control plus space is likely
>> required because the screen reader is in browse mode and control space is
>> not captured. Shortcuts like this can be problematic because there is no
>> clear method for visual affordance (when no control exists ) or users of
>> screen reader to know the keystroke. Space also provides another function
>> on pages - to scroll except when certain controls are focused.
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On Jan 15, 2018, at 1:24 PM, " <EMAIL REMOVED> " < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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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