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Re: How to Generate Automatically Accessible ARIA Tabs and Menu Controls

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From: Priti
Date: Sep 16, 2011 6:45AM

Hi Bryan,

This is excellent!
I am a screen reader user & tried this demo with IE 8 & FF 3.62 with NVDA
2011.2 & JAWS 11. Following are the results, if it helps:

Menus worked perfectly in both the browsers using NVDA & JAWS. However, in
case of tabs, JAWS failed to identify the tabs in FF whereas it worked fine
in IE, as described in the example instructions & keystrokes. On the other
hand, NVDA activated the tab without users requiring to activate their
selection (as mentioned in the instructions), which was slightly confusing
if one goes with the instructions in mind in both the browsers. Actually if
we compare it standard Windows tabs, the tab content is displayed as the
user navigates and doesn't require the user to activate it. If one forgots
what is mentioned in the instruction text, this is the perfect simulation of
a standard windows tab panel or dialog and I would personally go with this
one.
Would like to know what other list members have to say on this.


All in all a fantastic effort that works well for screen readers as well as
keyboard users.

Regards,
Priti Rohra