Re: Help defining carousel

These are few suggestions 😊

   - In the first line I will suggest to add “slider” along with carousel
   - A carousel can have auto rotating images or text slides. So I suggest
   to “text slides” in the first sentence.
   - Carousel should have explicit play and pause button
   - Depending upon the scenario tablist could be a better option then next
   and previous buttons.
   - Please add text to avoid nested carousel.



Updated definition after Inserting few of the suggestions:



A carousel *slider* is a composite widget for rendering auto-rotating image
slides *or text 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 *and play* button,
previous button and a next slide buttons. Optionally a tablist can be used
to provide additional control over the navigation of the slides.



I have not addressed other details like buttons and tablist  should pass
color contrast ratio, image should have alt text, proper structure for the
slide, good VFI etc.



Thanks,

Siri



*From:* Matt King <a11ythinker@gmail.com>
*Sent:* Wednesday, December 5, 2018 3:32 PM
*To:* public-aria-practices@w3.org
*Subject:* 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.



---------- draft content ----------



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.



---------- End draft content ----------



Draft carousel pattern:

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