MasterSlider Accessibility for Screen Reader Users

  • Resolved lynchburgaccess

    (@lynchburgaccess)


    8 years, 8 months ago

    Hello All:

    My name is Chris Nusbaum, and I have recently been hired by the College Communications and Marketing department at Lynchburg College to serve as an accessibility specialist. In this position, I test our Web content to make sure it is compatible with access technologies such as screen readers for blind users.

    While testing the college’s homepage, I found a slider which had an ever-changing rotation of news stories about LC. JAWS (the screen reader I’m using for these tests) was not interpreting the elements in this slider as links or buttons at all; it was only reading them as straight text, and was not allowing me to interact with them. Also, the rotation changed some quickly that even if JAWS read a story’s headline in the form of a link or button, the user wouldn’t have time to click on it before another story took its place. The Web developer tells me that we are using the Master Slider plug-in, which I have no experience with. Does anyone know if there is a way to make MasterSlider accessible, or if there is an accessible alternative which will keep intact the visual look the marketing people seek?

    Thanks,

    Chris

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  • Plugin Contributor averta support

    (@averta_support)

    8 years, 8 months ago

    Hi Chris,

    Thank you for choosing Master Slider.

    We have not done anything to make Master Slider accessible yet, but we are planning to do some tasks for accessibility.

    If you have any suggestions regarding the accessibility, we would be more than glad to hear them.

    Best,
    Averta

    Plugin Contributor averta support

    (@averta_support)

    8 years, 8 months ago

    Hi Chris,

    We really appreciate your extremely helpful and detailed response.

    I should mention that this will take time, because we are planning to make Master Slider accessible on our next major update. So I need to know your project deadline.

    We will contact you if we need any further information regarding accessibility.

    Best,
    Averta

    Thread Starter lynchburgaccess

    (@lynchburgaccess)

    8 years, 8 months ago

    Hi Averta:

    We are currently working on a redesign of our Web site, which we plan to launch on July 1. So, if you do an update which improves accessibility, please let me know so we can take a look. Thank you again for your responsiveness!

    Chris

    Plugin Contributor averta support

    (@averta_support)

    8 years, 8 months ago

    Hi Chris,

    It is great 🙂 Our next major update will be ready until then.

    Please keep checking out the changelong.

    Have a great time.

    Best,
    Averta

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