Help defining carousel

Hi all,

 

We are working on wrapping up toolbar this week, and next week, we will
focus on carousel. In preparation, one aspect of carousel I'd like some
feedback on is the definition paragraph that we include at the beginning of
each pattern, especially the first sentence.

 

Following is Jon's first draft. We typically do not include implementation
detail in the description, so I will move that out. I'm not looking for
grammar or structure help right now. I'd like to know what others believe
are the defining characteristics of a carousel.

 

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A carousel is a composite widget for rendering auto-rotating image slides
for highlighting the activities or accomplishments of an organization and
often providing navigation links to more information the topic of the slide.
The image is the dominate visual feature of each slide and slides often have
additional content in the form of text content for titles and links to
additional information. The carousel slides should be contained in a
complementary or region landmark with a label identifying the region as
containing auto-rotating slides. Slides that are not rendered should be
hidden using display: none or equivalent technique. The requirements for
controlling the slide rotation include pausing rotation on keyboard focus
and pointer hover, an explicit pause button, previous button and a next
slide buttons. Optionally a tablist can be used to provide additional
control over the navigation of the slides.

 

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Draft carousel pattern:

https://raw.githack.com/w3c/aria-practices/carousel-v2/aria-practices.html#c
arousel

 

Matt