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Re: CSS Photo Shuffler Accessibility

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From: Emma Duke-Williams
Date: Nov 14, 2006 2:10AM

I'd tend to agree with Darrel - in the particular example, the
pictures are just for decoration.
Given the comparatively small numbers of people who are totally blind,
as compared to those who have limited vision, I'd have thought
offering people the option to have a full screen, hi-res option would
help more people.

Another idea, that I know I've mentioned in the past is the script
that they've used at http://persistent.info/files/20040508.magnifier/
to enlarge sections of an image.

As to the description - have you seen Craig Grannel's script as he's
used on http://www.snubcommunications.com/iceland/ - that has a
(admittedly pale grey) caption under each photo. Perhaps a combination
of those two scripts would allow you to have changing images &
captions.

Emma

On 11/13/06, Austin, Darrel < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> > It doesn't seem to flicker or produce a strobe-like affect.
> > But is the slow fading affect a problem?
>
> How accessible do the images need to be? Is it decorative fluff?
> Important content?
>
> Usually, IMHO, most slideshows I see are decorative fluff. Nice to have,
> but don't really affect the purpose of the site if a person can't see
> it.
>
> As stated, this particular script rotates the background image of a DIV.
> As such, from a semantic standpoint, it's set up as a bit of decorative
> fluff. Just a page should work just fine without background images, a
> page using this particular slide show should work/read just fine even if
> the slideshow itself isn't accessible.
>
> -Darrel
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