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From: Jake Joehl
Date: Thu, Dec 27 2012 12:58PM
Subject: Intro and a Question
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Hi everyone. My name's Jake and I just subscribed to the list last
week, in hopes of gleaning more information about web accessibility.
There's a lot I already know from having been a screen reader user for
several years, but there's still more I don't yet know but want to. I
am the Social Media Assistant for a local nonprofit organization that
works with people who have disabilities. Our organization is
cross-disability, meaning that we don't just work with one disability
type or category. We're currently in the midst of a total website
overhaul, and I'm rather curious about something. On our main page
there is currently some kind of slide show/carousel, which is
apparently supposed to rotate through all or some of the features of
our site. However, it isn't working well with either System Access or
Non-Visual Desktop Access, which are my current and probably future
screen readers of choice. It seems to be causing page refreshes. What
I'm wondering is if any of you web accessibility gurus could test it
out and see what needs to be done to correct the problem. I'm not sure
if any of our site developers are on this list, but something tells me
they're not. Please see below for the URL. Thanks much.
Jake Joehl
Social Media Assistant, JJ's List
Email: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
Web: http://www.jjslist.com
From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Fri, Dec 28 2012 4:01PM
Subject: Re: Intro and a Question
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Hi, and welcome to the list.
Can't help you too much yet, but I am dealing with the same problem
i.e. carousels that disrupt screen reader focus. It seems a solution
that would at least work for NVDA, would be to put a TabIndex of -a on
all things that appear inside the carousel, and then put an
aria-hidden = true on the container element of the carousel (or put a
div around it if necessary).
A more classic and secure solution (which really is complementary to
this one) is to put a button at the top of the page that enables the
user to stop this animation from happening, even put a keyboarde
shortcut to it to make sure screen reader users can stop this carousel
(you could always hide that button off-screen using CSS, but there may
be other users who prefer not to have distracting animations popping
up on the screen, so I think it would be of benefit to show it to
everyone). . I am not sure how System Access handles the ARIA spec,
how far they are along, good screen reader as far as my tests a few
years back shows, but I have been using Jaws and NVDA since and have
not had a fresh look at SA yet.
HTH
-B
On 12/27/12, Jake Joehl < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
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> Hi everyone. My name's Jake and I just subscribed to the list last
> week, in hopes of gleaning more information about web accessibility.
> There's a lot I already know from having been a screen reader user for
> several years, but there's still more I don't yet know but want to. I
> am the Social Media Assistant for a local nonprofit organization that
> works with people who have disabilities. Our organization is
> cross-disability, meaning that we don't just work with one disability
> type or category. We're currently in the midst of a total website
> overhaul, and I'm rather curious about something. On our main page
> there is currently some kind of slide show/carousel, which is
> apparently supposed to rotate through all or some of the features of
> our site. However, it isn't working well with either System Access or
> Non-Visual Desktop Access, which are my current and probably future
> screen readers of choice. It seems to be causing page refreshes. What
> I'm wondering is if any of you web accessibility gurus could test it
> out and see what needs to be done to correct the problem. I'm not sure
> if any of our site developers are on this list, but something tells me
> they're not. Please see below for the URL. Thanks much.
>
> Jake Joehl
> Social Media Assistant, JJ's List
> Email: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
> Web: http://www.jjslist.com
> > > >
From: Jake Joehl
Date: Thu, Jan 03 2013 6:31PM
Subject: Re: Intro and a Question
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Thanks for this. I have since spoken with some of my colleagues--all
fully-sighted--and they are having problems with the carousel too. We
are totally re-designing our site, and one of the reasons for this is
so that the back end is accessible with screen readers. I've begun
testing it out. There's still a lot of work to be done but so far so
good. I admittedly am a bit confused by a lot of the things that are
on the new site so far, but I'm sure my colleagues will explain it all
to me. Our new site is being designed using Drupal, which I've heard
very good things about.
Jake
On 12/28/12, Birkir R. Gunnarsson < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> Hi, and welcome to the list.
> Can't help you too much yet, but I am dealing with the same problem
> i.e. carousels that disrupt screen reader focus. It seems a solution
> that would at least work for NVDA, would be to put a TabIndex of -a on
> all things that appear inside the carousel, and then put an
> aria-hidden = true on the container element of the carousel (or put a
> div around it if necessary).
>
> A more classic and secure solution (which really is complementary to
> this one) is to put a button at the top of the page that enables the
> user to stop this animation from happening, even put a keyboarde
> shortcut to it to make sure screen reader users can stop this carousel
> (you could always hide that button off-screen using CSS, but there may
> be other users who prefer not to have distracting animations popping
> up on the screen, so I think it would be of benefit to show it to
> everyone). . I am not sure how System Access handles the ARIA spec,
> how far they are along, good screen reader as far as my tests a few
> years back shows, but I have been using Jaws and NVDA since and have
> not had a fresh look at SA yet.
> HTH
> -B
>
> On 12/27/12, Jake Joehl < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
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>> Hi everyone. My name's Jake and I just subscribed to the list last
>> week, in hopes of gleaning more information about web accessibility.
>> There's a lot I already know from having been a screen reader user for
>> several years, but there's still more I don't yet know but want to. I
>> am the Social Media Assistant for a local nonprofit organization that
>> works with people who have disabilities. Our organization is
>> cross-disability, meaning that we don't just work with one disability
>> type or category. We're currently in the midst of a total website
>> overhaul, and I'm rather curious about something. On our main page
>> there is currently some kind of slide show/carousel, which is
>> apparently supposed to rotate through all or some of the features of
>> our site. However, it isn't working well with either System Access or
>> Non-Visual Desktop Access, which are my current and probably future
>> screen readers of choice. It seems to be causing page refreshes. What
>> I'm wondering is if any of you web accessibility gurus could test it
>> out and see what needs to be done to correct the problem. I'm not sure
>> if any of our site developers are on this list, but something tells me
>> they're not. Please see below for the URL. Thanks much.
>>
>> Jake Joehl
>> Social Media Assistant, JJ's List
>> Email: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
>> Web: http://www.jjslist.com
>> >> >> >>
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Jake Joehl
Social Media Assistant, JJ's List
Email: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
Web: http://www.jjslist.com