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Re: training sr users for the modern web (wasIntuitiveness of JAWS jump to tabpanel shortcut for ARIA Tabs in FF??

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From: Tim Harshbarger
Date: Jul 7, 2014 4:55AM

What I find interesting about this situation is that typically if you ask someone using a screen reader to interact with a tab panel on a desktop application, they know what to do. But present the same UI on a web page and they seem to have difficulty figuring out how to interact with the tab panel.

I definitely think part of that has to do with the non-existent to terrible keyboard interactions that are implemented on the web. I also agree that some of it has to do with the training. I think most of the time we still tend to present the web and desktop as 2 different things to the user when in reality we keep trying to make them more and more identical in reality.