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Re: Revolution slider question

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From: Joseph Sherman
Date: Feb 26, 2018 1:32PM


The CMS does not allow for ARIA-Label or any ARIA. It's a plug in for WordPress. The screen readers read the last section of the URL. So if the URL for the slide is w3.school.edu/admissions/about/John-Doe-wins-award, they read "John-Doe-wins-award", which is an adequate description of where the link/slide takes you.

Joseph


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You might be able to use an aria-label to get around the empty link issue... Are screen readers picking up the empty anchor?

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Subject: [WebAIM] Revolution slider question

I have a group using a revolving slider, and they love it. The slide itself is a DIV with a title; it includes an image with an ALT, and a link. There's no text for the href so the screen readers read the URL when they get to the slide. There is no way to give the URL text or a title attribute within the CMS. Accessibility tools are reporting "Empty link". If the URL itself is descriptive, is that sufficient for compliance? Is there another option besides removing the slider, which my people really are fighting against?

Thanks.


Joseph