Are ‘CSS Carousels’ accessible?

May 9, 2025

Screenshot of a carousel UI with developer tools open, showing a tablist with four tabs but no associated tabpanels, indicating a potential accessibility issue.

In this post I want to examine the newly announced “CSS Carousels” through the lens of usability and accessibility. I’ll start with a spoiler: CSS Carousels are highly experimental and they are not yet ready for production; not only because of the current lack of browser adoption for the new CSS features they use, but also because they have some major accessibility issues.

Source: Are ‘CSS Carousels’ accessible?

Few people know practical accessibility like Sara Soueidan. Here she considers a recently announced experimental feature, CSS Carousels.