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Re: Carousels again

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From: Mallory
Date: Jul 21, 2020 1:43PM

I filed a bug against chromium a while back where any sections with a tabindex (even tabindex="-1") would act like it was a named region and also read the whole content out as the region name.

The Talkback one I've heard of too but I don't keep up with whether they've fixed it.

cheers
_mallory

On Tue, Jul 21, 2020, at 12:47 AM, Todd Magnusson wrote:
> Just a small reoly to the carousel thread in replies above. Android
> Talkback has an issue with <section> where it tends to read the entire
> content of a <section>, so be cognizant of that. Still not sure if
> that's a defect that's been reported to their internal A11Y mobile team.
>
> — Todd
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> Thanks Joe and Steve for clairifying.
> I usually recommended role region along with the valid aria-label so
> far in all the assessments.
>
> On 7/18/20, Mallory < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> > As a note, most of my recent audited sites used carousels for content
> > (rather than marketing), in the middle of the pages.
> > Most recently, they were used extensively for paging through article
> > teasers. Complimentary would be weird in those cases.
> >
> > cheers,
> > _mallory
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