If you own a small business website built between 2014 and 2022, there is a very good chance your homepage starts with a giant rotating image carousel. Three to five photos, each with a headline and a button, fading or sliding from one to the next every four seconds. Your designer probably loved it. Your conversion rate consultant probably hated it. And in 2026, the plaintiff's lawyer who just sent you a demand letter probably mentioned it by name. Image carousels are one of the most-cited widgets in ADA Title III filings against small businesses, second only to inaccessible PDFs. They are also one of the most common sources of European Accessibility Act complaints reaching national market surveillance authorities. The reason is not that carousels are impossible to build accessibly — they are, with effort — but that almost nobody actually does. The default carousel that ships with your theme is, in plain language, broken for several categories of disabled users.…