Accessibility issues

  • Resolved ceenee

    (@ceenee)


    1 year, 2 months ago

    Hi,  

    At Northeastern University, we use a WordPress vendor called CampusPress where we host thousands of University websites. The vendor controls what plugins we use, and Metaslider is installed as the slider of choice on our network.  

    Metaslider provides an excellent array of theme and customizations on the dashboard.  

    We would really like to recommend the Metaslider. However, due to accessibility issues in the sliders, it’s difficult for us to recommend it to our user-base.  

    Since the plugin was upgraded to include such themes as “Base” and “Clarity (for accessibility), the main accessibility issues we see are: 

    • All interactive components should receive keyboard focus and include a visible focus indicator.
    • Each slide should have a visible keyboard focus indicator if the slide is a link. 
    • The slides should not receive keyboard focus if there is no link associated with the slide. 
    • It inconsistently produces additional <li> elements for each slide in the DOM. This may affect the amount of tab stops within the slider which can be confusing or potentially burdensome for some users. 
    • The default arrow navigation in the Base theme displays the same color for both the arrow its background such that you can’t see the arrow icons. 
    • In the Clarity theme, there is no visible keyboard focus indicator on the arrow (Prev/Next) navigation. 

    Would you be able to address these issues in a future release? Again, we’d really like to recommend Metaslider and have it be accessible to all users since it has many great features to work with. 

    Much appreciated! 

    Thanks! 

    -Chris 

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  • Plugin Author Steve Burge

    (@stevejburge)

    1 year, 2 months ago

    Hi @ceenee. Thanks for using MetaSlider and we appreciate your feedback.

    We do work very hard to make sure MetaSlider is accessible: https://www.metaslider.com/docs/accessibility/ and we’ll take a look at these issues.

    There are many themes available in the plugin. Is your feedback specifically for just these two themes, or did you find accessibility issues with the plugin?

    Thread Starter ceenee

    (@ceenee)

    1 year, 2 months ago

    Hi Steve!

    We found issues 1-4 in each theme we tested. We didn’t test every theme, but those we did test we found those accessibility issues that are most likely in the other themes.

    If these issues could be addressed, particularly in the default Base theme and the Clarity theme which is described as being accessibility-friendly, that would be great.

    Thanks!

    Chris

    Plugin Author Steve Burge

    (@stevejburge)

    1 year, 2 months ago

    Thanks Chris. Would it help if we gave you access to our GitHub repo? That would allow you to share the accessibility feedback with specific details, and get responses direct from our team. They make have follow-up questions or clarification requests on what’s been posted here.

    Thread Starter ceenee

    (@ceenee)

    1 year, 2 months ago

    Hi Steve,

    That would be great if you could add me to the github repo.

    Thanks!

    -Chris

    Plugin Author Steve Burge

    (@stevejburge)

    1 year, 2 months ago

    Thanks Chris. Can you email me via steve @ metaslider.com with your Github username and I’ll get that done.

    Thread Starter ceenee

    (@ceenee)

    1 year, 2 months ago

    Thanks Steve! Just emailed you my github account name.

    -Chris

    Plugin Author Steve Burge

    (@stevejburge)

    1 year, 2 months ago

    Thanks, @ceenee. I’ve sent the invite.

    Thread Starter ceenee

    (@ceenee)

    1 year, 2 months ago

    Thanks Steve, I accepted the invite. It looks like you already added the issues we found to the Issues list. Thanks very much for logging these!

    Thanks,

    Chris

    Plugin Author Steve Burge

    (@stevejburge)

    1 year, 2 months ago

    Thanks Chris.

    I think our team will have follow-up questions on at least a couple of those issues. We’ll tag you if we do, and then will send you a beta version when the fixes are ready.

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