Previous / next buttons do not give any feedback to screen reader when being pressed

[jmuheim]

I'm currently looking for an accessible slider carousel for a client.

Thanks for creating this great implementation, it look really good. But I have one thing to complain:

When I press the "Previous" or "Next" button, no feedback is given to the screen reader. Wouldn't it make sense to give the button a label like Next (slides 1 to 3), and when pressed, update it to Next (slides 4 to 6)? At least some screen readers will then announce the changed label, AFAIK.

One could argue, that it is not that much important to give a feedback, and I'd agree: the user will find out quickly that the visible slides actually changed by navigating around. But at least for the following scenario, the current implementation is very confusing:

For the "Responsive Display", when I press the "Next" button, I get "unavailable" (as it is disabled now). The user might be very confused now: what is unavailable? Did pressing the button actually work? Or what happened exactly?

That's just an edge case, and after navigating around a little bit the user will find out what's going on. But still, I think that setting a proper label would enhance the issue, i.e. Next slide (last).

Thank you.

[jmuheim]

Thinking about it, it may be a good idea to put an aria-live="polite" around the slide, so it would announce the currently displayed slide automatically. This would kind-of "fix" the mentioned issue, and improve general usability for blind people (except when auto-rotating the slides, the live region should be removed).

[webgurumike]

Thinking about it, it may be a good idea to put an aria-live="polite" around the slide, so it would announce the currently displayed slide automatically. This would kind-of "fix" the mentioned issue, and improve general usability for blind people (except when auto-rotating the slides, the live region should be removed).

What if there are multiple slides visible? This would read them all, no? I tried this method and it even reads the first slide that has been scrolled out of view as well.