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Accessibility improvements for carousel
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- Dominant language
- HTML
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Description
Is your feature request related to a problem?
It is not trivial to control the carousel inside the message.
Describe the suggestion or request in detail
I have talked to accessibility team, and they suggest:
- Take flipper out of focus ring (i.e. set
tabindex="-1") - Add CTRL + LEFT/RIGHT to mimic the flipper button click (scroll left/right)
- Add CTRL + LEFT/RIGHT to keyboard help screen to educate PWD how to scroll inside the carousel
Describe alternatives you have considered
No response
Additional context
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Research direction
Locate the carousel flipper implementation and the keyboard help screen, then trace how focus and flipper clicks are currently handled. Implement the three requested accessibility behaviors and verify that keyboard users can move through the carousel and see the CTRL+LEFT/RIGHT guidance in the help screen.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- html
- Domain
- accessibility, frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100