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Re: ARIA difficult for non-screenreader users?

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From: Jared Smith
Date: May 13, 2013 7:04AM

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 6:52 AM, Alastair Campbell < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

>>This would defeat the purpose of providing an ARIA tab panel.
>
> I meant allowing for both the WAI-ARIA pattern (tab to and then use
> arrows), and the traditional tab-to, tab-through, and press enter.

But placing each tab in the navigation/tab order is not following the
ARIA design pattern. A significant advantage of the ARIA tab panel
interaction is that you do not have to navigate through each tab, but
navigate to the tab panel as one tab stop.

Again, once users understand this standard interaction pattern (this
is, by the way, the standard interaction for most software tab
panels), then things will work much smoother. Continuing to provide
non-standard interactions just perpetuates the frustration, though I
understand that in your case you don't want to be the one to hand hold
users into learning this interaction. If you can justify a different
interaction for your users, then go for it - it seems you've made up
your mind anyway.

Jared