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Re: building accessible javascript accordions?

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From: Alastair Campbell
Date: Aug 1, 2013 10:09AM

Paul J. Adam wrote:
> There's no WCAG requirement that says you have to follow certain keyboard interactions for your
> ARIA widgets right?

Personally I agree, but others believe that creating 'non standard'
implementations (according to the design patterns) will create more
confusion long term:
http://webaim.org/discussion/mail_thread?threadY14

I'm hoping we can get to some agreement about what to do for
non-application sites that use interactive features that benefit from
ARIA.

At the moment the best suggestion has been to include instructions at
the beginning of the widget, but I've had a hard time getting dev
teams to accept that, it looks hacky.

Perhaps we need a set of design patterns for non-application use of
ARIA attributes? For use in specific cases where it does not clash
with the application version.

-Alastair