Title: Accessibility issues
Last modified: March 14, 2025

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# Accessibility issues

 *  Resolved [ceenee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ceenee/)
 * (@ceenee)
 * [1 year, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/accessibility-issues-45/)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevejburge/)
 * (@stevejburge)
 * [1 year, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/accessibility-issues-45/#post-18362158)
 * Hi [@ceenee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/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/](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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ceenee/)
 * (@ceenee)
 * [1 year, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/accessibility-issues-45/#post-18362180)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevejburge/)
 * (@stevejburge)
 * [1 year, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/accessibility-issues-45/#post-18362187)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ceenee/)
 * (@ceenee)
 * [1 year, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/accessibility-issues-45/#post-18365794)
 * Hi Steve,
 * That would be great if you could add me to the github repo.
 * Thanks!
 * -Chris
 *  Plugin Author [Steve Burge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevejburge/)
 * (@stevejburge)
 * [1 year, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/accessibility-issues-45/#post-18365804)
 * Thanks Chris. Can you email me via steve @ metaslider.com with your Github username
   and I’ll get that done.
 *  Thread Starter [ceenee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ceenee/)
 * (@ceenee)
 * [1 year, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/accessibility-issues-45/#post-18368410)
 * Thanks Steve! Just emailed you my github account name.
 * -Chris
 *  Plugin Author [Steve Burge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevejburge/)
 * (@stevejburge)
 * [1 year, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/accessibility-issues-45/#post-18368708)
 * Thanks, [@ceenee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ceenee/). I’ve sent the
   invite.
 *  Thread Starter [ceenee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ceenee/)
 * (@ceenee)
 * [1 year, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/accessibility-issues-45/#post-18368787)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevejburge/)
 * (@stevejburge)
 * [1 year, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/accessibility-issues-45/#post-18368792)
 * 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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