Re: rotation control button label

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I find that too wordy

Microsoft uses “Play Slides” (actually implemented as a toggle button – to be honest I prefer play/pause buttons with changing labels)

I suggest a regular button with
“Play Slides” and “Pause Slides”

James Nurthen  |  Accessibility Engineer  |  Adobe  |  p. 415.832.2734  |  c. 415.987.1918  |  nurthen@adobe.com



From: Matt King <a11ythinker@gmail.com>
Date: Thursday, January 10, 2019 at 2:51 PM
To: "Gunderson, Jon R" <jongund@illinois.edu>, "public-aria-practices@w3.org" <public-aria-practices@w3.org>
Subject: rotation control button label
Resent-From: <public-aria-practices@w3.org>
Resent-Date: Thursday, January 10, 2019 at 2:50 PM

Jon,

I’m concerned that typical users don’t know what rotation means in the context of a carousel. If they make an association to a real-life carnival carousel, they might get it. But, it feels more than kind of techy.

So instead of a button label like “Start Carousel rotation,” I’d like to suggest we label the button:

  *   “Stop automatic slide show” when the carousel is rotating.
  *   “Start automatic slide show” when the carousel is not rotating.

I toyed with whether or not to include the word “automatic.” I think it is worth the extra syllables. If users are familiar with slide shows, they are usually manually controlled, like in a presentation. So, they might think stopping the show is like closing a show window or something. So, I think the word “automatic” adds significant meaning.

Once aria-roledescription is properly supported, users will know where the slides are and what they are, so that will help too.

Input from others is welcome.

Thanks,
Matt