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Re: [EXTERNAL]Accessible Carousel Working

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From: Mark Magennis
Date: Jan 7, 2021 1:21AM

As Glen says, there isn't a single approach that will work best for all users in all cases. You might think of this by deciding which use case(s) you most want to support. Here are a couple to think about:

1. User wants to skip through the slides quickly, reading but not interacting with them.
2. User wants to go to the next slide and interact with it.

If 1 is your most common or important use case, then the best approach may be to leave focus on the Next Slide button and use a live region to cause screen readers to announce the slide contents (or a summary of them if they are complex) when the slide appears.

If supporting case 2 is more important to you, then it may be best to move focus to the beginning of the slide contents on each transition.

Mark