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Are the sliders keyboard accessible? I use Jaws for Windows as my screen reading software and am unable to adjust the price slider in either Firefox or Chrome.
by jareds 8y ago
Are the sliders keyboard accessible? I use Jaws for Windows as my screen reading software and am unable to adjust the price slider in either Firefox or Chrome.
- voltagex_ 8y agoAre you able to activate the links for manually entering minimum and maximum prices?
- ServerHunter 8y agoI'm very sorry to hear this, we use noUiSlider, which mentions "Accessible with ARIA and keyboard support" as one of their features, but it looks like our implementation might have broken it. I've added this as a high priority issue and will update you when I make any progress. I'll also see if we can improve our accessibility testing to avoid this in the future.
- ServerHunter 8y agoHappy to report the sliders are now keyboard accessible! :) Turns out keyboard support was only introduced 10 days ago: https://github.com/leongersen/noUiSlider/issues/724#issuecomment-461009737 https://github.com/leongersen/noUiSlider/issues/724#issuecom... We have plans to do some more comprehensive accessibility testing in the near future, but in the meantime, please let me know if you come across any other accessibility issues. Thank you!
- jareds 8y agoJust gave this another look and the sliders do work with my screen reading software which is an improvement. As far as I can tell the page up and down keys don't move in larger increments. Home and end don't move to the top or bottom either. Because of this when looking for servers priced between $0 and $5 I had to repeatedly hit left arrow a bunch of times. Ideally I could have gone to the maximum price slider, hit home to set it to 0, then hit right arrow several times to find my maximum price. I assume this is behavior of the noUiSlider framework and not code you have written.