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From: Graham Armfield
Date: Fri, Mar 06 2015 9:26AM
Subject: Using Accessible Sliders with Voiceover and Talkback
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I've been investigating accessible sliders and have a question about how
users with Voiceover and Talkback can successfully use them.

I've been taking as my example the sliders found on the Paciello Group ARIA
Slider Examples page:
http://files.paciellogroup.com/blogmisc/samples/aria/slider/

Whilst I can successfully use these sliders with NVDA/Firefox and JAWS/IE
on my laptop, I am struggling to get them to work with Voiceover on iOS7
and Talkback on Android 4.4.2.

In Voiceover I get a prompt that states something like "Swipe up or down to
change values" but doing so appears to do nothing. On Android there is no
prompt and I haven't worked out which gesture should use.

Please does anyone have some advice on this? Am I missing something, or are
the examples missing something?

Regards
Graham Armfield



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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Fri, Mar 06 2015 9:47AM
Subject: Re: Using Accessible Sliders with Voiceover and Talkback
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On 06/03/2015 16:40, Jonathan Avila wrote:
> I've done ARIA Slider testing with Talkback with Chrome and Firefix Voiceover on iOS and Narrator on Windows Phone 8 and the gesture and keyboard access is not supported to change the slider.

Indeed, to me that is one of the problems with ARIA at the moment - a
lot of the advice centers on (re)implementing the equivalent keyboard
controls (using keydown/keyup/keypress listeners), but this falls short
in many cases when using AT and touch (the same problem also happens
when using NVDA or JAWS on a touchscreen laptop/two-in-one device when
using the touch interface/gestures).

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Fri, Mar 06 2015 9:40AM
Subject: Re: Using Accessible Sliders with Voiceover and Talkback
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I've done ARIA Slider testing with Talkback with Chrome and Firefix Voiceover on iOS and Narrator on Windows Phone 8 and the gesture and keyboard access is not supported to change the slider.

ARIA Combo boxes have similar mobile challenges.

Jonathan

> On Mar 6, 2015, at 8:28 AM, Graham Armfield < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
>
> I've been investigating accessible sliders and have a question about how
> users with Voiceover and Talkback can successfully use them.
>
> I've been taking as my example the sliders found on the Paciello Group ARIA
> Slider Examples page:
> http://files.paciellogroup.com/blogmisc/samples/aria/slider/
>
> Whilst I can successfully use these sliders with NVDA/Firefox and JAWS/IE
> on my laptop, I am struggling to get them to work with Voiceover on iOS7
> and Talkback on Android 4.4.2.
>
> In Voiceover I get a prompt that states something like "Swipe up or down to
> change values" but doing so appears to do nothing. On Android there is no
> prompt and I haven't worked out which gesture should use.
>
> Please does anyone have some advice on this? Am I missing something, or are
> the examples missing something?
>
> Regards
> Graham Armfield
>
>
>
> coolfields.co.uk <http://www.coolfields.co.uk/>;
> M:07905 590026
> T: 01483 856613
> @coolfields <https://twitter.com/coolfields>
> > >