RE: Accessible carousels in public Slick.js archive

No problem, I’ve made the pull request
https://github.com/kenwheeler/slick/pull/3773


Unfortunately I expect the same. This is one of the main reasons why I hardly ever contribute to public open source projects, because I detest wasting my time when my work is usually automatically dismissed.

In this case though, I needed to fix this for a client anyway, so I decided to share it with those who might find it helpful. I agree it would be good if it were encorporated with the master branch, and the test results by comparing the index.html of the primary project with the one I have hosted in this repo plainly show that the unmodified one has critical accessibility issues for screen reader users if left unaddressed.


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AMAZING!!!! Thanks.... Brian.... you are making the world a better place...

This is going to reduce accessibility costs all over the world. I hope the owner accepts the pull requests... apparently he has not be that open to accessibility help previously, even from seasoned professionals, it appears he's always asserted that it is accessible.


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On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 7:58 PM Bryan Garaventa <bryan.garaventa@levelaccess.com<mailto:bryan.garaventa@levelaccess.com>> wrote:
Hi,
In case it's of interest, I forked a copy of Slick.js, which is a common carousel that is used by thousands across the web, but has critical accessibility issues. So I fixed all of them. This uses all of the expected behaviors we've been discussing in the APG for the carousel design pattern. You are welcome to try this out at
https://github.com/accdc/slick

(This also works accessibly when auto-rotation is enabled via autoplay: true.)

Note I only fixed the carousel issues, not all of the unnamed images within index.html, so presumably people will actually make sure their content is accessible when they implement this within their own projects. However, I am not holding out for common sense to prevail at this point.

I'll make a pull request for the  project owner once I finish some final testing, but here it is in case it's of help to anyone.

All the best,
Bryan


Bryan Garaventa
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