Archive of: carousel

• Learning to build a better slider

  May 8, 2021

  Today I started working my way through the slider portion of Heydon Pickering’s book, Inclusive Components. It’s been a good read so far and I’m working through all of it by building a modified version of his example code as I go. I’ve had to double check things quite a bit because of his CSS selector usage (it’s good, I’m just not used to the combinations he uses). I’ll work on it more tomorrow, and by the time I’m done with this I’ll feel much better about the accessibility of the sliders/carousels I build in the future.

• We meet again slider

  May 6, 2021

  I used to swap product images, links, and more out of an e-commerce website’s slider/carousle multiple times a week. So I’m fairly familiar with how they normally work and are built. Almost all of them I’ve encountered had some JavaScript built-in to make them work, but today I built my first version mostly free of JavaScript. It’s really only used to switch it into and out of fullscreen mode. It also doesn’t change slides on its own. I think that’s alright, as this will probably not be used in such a way. It may not be too tough to add a bit to make it automatically change slides though. I also need to make sure I don’t bother displaying the fullscreen toggle button for browsers that don’t support it, or change how it works.