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From: Bourne, Sarah (ITD)
Date: Aug 7, 2013 9:18AM

Alastair Campbell wrote:
Admittedly I have a very web-focused outlook, but it's no wonder that a regular (non technical NVDA) user in testing exclaimed "it said tab, so I pressed tab!".
Léonie Watson wrote:
Which is interesting because it was taken as an instruction. Most screen readers report a link as a link, a table as a table, a list as a list and so forth. It's logical that a tab would therefore be reported as a tab isn't it?

I think the difference here is that "tab" is both a noun and a verb. Think of how many instructions say "Tab to [some location]." Without doing some elaborate research project, I suspect the verb (to tab) is used more than the noun (a tab). Silly English language! Perhaps screen readers need to have a more verbose label: "a tab"? "tab link"? "content tab"?

("Link" is used as a verb, too, but only by content-creator types. A regular user is not likely to think that a SR announcing "link" meant they had to create a link.)

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