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Slider accessibility issue
by Barry Jenkin - Tuesday, 19 March 2019, 8:08 AM
 

I'm finding in the latest release of Slider (2.3.2) I've lost ability to tab across the slider scale numbers to select when I'm in accessibility mode. It skips past the numbers and goes straight to Submit. In my previous version with tab-select working, I noticed the selectable numbers were using button property - now they are divs.

I've gone back to version 2.3.0 for the meantime which is the last one with buttons.

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Re: Slider accessibility issue
by Matt Leathes - Tuesday, 19 March 2019, 12:02 PM
 

In Slider v2.3.2 you should be able to tab to the slider itself then use the up/down arrow keys to change your selection - it may be that this only works with Adapt v4.x though and I'm guessing that because you mention 'accessibility mode' you're using an older version.

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Re: Slider accessibility issue
by Barry Jenkin - Tuesday, 19 March 2019, 10:20 PM
 

Ah. Yes I have several courses on the old framework. 

Having said that the up/down arrows (instead of left/right) do seem to work in shifting the handle across the slider. Will this be intuitive to accessibility users and will they know the values its stopping at?

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Re: Slider accessibility issue
by Matt Leathes - Wednesday, 20 March 2019, 2:56 PM
 

I assume so since the HTML5 'range' input control works in the same way. In fact, if you inspect the slider component you'll see that there's actually a range input control being updated behind the scenes, I suspect it's this element which screen readers actually read.

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Re: Slider accessibility issue
by Barry Jenkin - Thursday, 21 March 2019, 6:39 AM
 

Ah great - thanks for that! :)