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Re: building accessible javascript accordions?

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From: Alastair Campbell
Date: Aug 1, 2013 3:22PM

Bryan Garaventa wrote:
> For example, I typically recommend making each triggering element either an
> ARIA Toggle using role=button, aria-pressed=true/false, and
> aria-expanded=true/false, or use offscreen text to indicate the role and
> state, both of which work reliably.

Thanks, that makes sense.


> Personally I'm not a fan of making an accordion have only one tab stop,
> because it doesn't make any sense from a usability perspective.

Agree, but for a regular user I would apply the same logic to tabs as
well though. You know the difference, but what signals the change of
model for a regular user?

Cheers,

-Alastair