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Re: Intuitiveness of JAWS jump to tabpanel shortcut for ARIATabs in FF?

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From: Léonie Watson
Date: Jul 4, 2014 2:55AM

Bryan Garaventa wrote:
"I've tried pressing Insert+Alt+M as instructed, and personally it's like
trying to do finger gymnastics using both hands."

Some key commands come easily to the fingertips, but this one I always have
to stop and think about before executing.

I'm guessing m is the chosen key because of the m for move mnemonic, but
coupled with insert and alt, it's very awkward. It would be easier,
physically speaking, if the chosen key was located on the left hand side of
the keyboard, although I'm struggling to think of a user friendly mnemonic
for any of the keys in that part of the board.

Léonie.

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Subject: [WebAIM] Intuitiveness of JAWS jump to tabpanel shortcut for ARIA
Tabs in FF?

I was wondering how intuitive JAWS users find the shortcut for jumping to a
tabpanel container when interacting with an ARIA Tab group in Firefox.



For example, if you visit

http://whatsock.com/tsg/Coding%20Arena/ARIA%20and%20Non-ARIA%20Tabs/ARIA%20T
abs%20(Internal%20Content)/demo.htm

Using JAWS in Firefox, arrowing to the currently open Tab will say the
following "Use JAWSKey+Alt+M to jump to the controlled element".



(This occurs when you have aria-controls set on the Tab triggering element
which then points to the newly rendered tabpanel
container.)



So, on the Desktop layout, the JAWSKey is the Insert key, which is usually
easiest to activate from the Numpad0 key.



I've tried pressing Insert+Alt+M as instructed, and personally it's like
trying to do finger gymnastics using both hands.



Does anybody else find this difficult?









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