The accessibility guide · Motion and media
The slideshow that flips on its own
A slideshow that advances on a timer moves on before slow readers and screen-reader users finish the slide in front of them. Who it shuts out, and the fix.
The choice you’re proud of
The rotating slideshow of dishes
What it actually is
Slides that flip to the next one on a timer, before you've finished the one in front of you. Auto-advance is the problem — better to let the guest click through at their own pace. If it does move on its own, the pause has to be obvious and easy to reach, and every slide's image needs a text description of what it shows.
Who it shuts out
Anyone who reads slowly — older guests, people with dyslexia or a cognitive disability — never reaches the end of a slide before it's gone. A blind guest's screen reader is still reading slide one aloud when the screen has already jumped to slide three.