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Re: Logical focus flow on carousel

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From: glen walker
Date: Apr 3, 2019 9:47PM

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> But ... And I hate to disagree with Glen on anything,


No, please do. I'm just one person's opinion and accessibility can be
somewhat subjective.

But I will, respectfully, disagree with moving the focus. I personally
hate when an application thinks it knows what I want to happen with the
focus. When I click on next, don't move my focus to another element.
Leave it on next because the stuff that's scrolled into view in the
carousel might not be the thing I want so I want to click on next again,
and again, and again. Don't make me have to navigate back to next every
time.

And I rarely use role="alert" or aria-live="assertive". If I need a live
region, I'll use "polite". There are not many scenarios where an update is
so urgent that it has to be announced immediately, even less that it has to
say "ALERT!" and then my update.

Glen