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Re: Is a button that does not support space bar activationa violation of WCAG?

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From: _mallory
Date: May 6, 2015 9:50PM

On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 09:32:20PM -0500, Paul J. Adam wrote:
> So eliminating the "if it looks like a" from the discussion makes determining the proper role much easier.

Only if one only cares about completely blind users.

I ran into a tab-panel while testing a page once. Wasted several
frustrated minutes of my life trying to figure out how to tab to
those suckers. The "tabs" looked like a bunch of normal page links,
but someone had marked them up as tab-panel I guess because clicking
once hid/showed content.
The screen reader tester was also flustered but that's because there's
no manual for non-developers on how to interact with tabs. She
discovered how they worked by accidentally hitting an arrow key, but
as she's totally blind that's a separate issue (users with zero
expectations simply because something is new rather than different
expectations based on how something looks).

Anyone who pulls that on me might or might not be breaking a WCAGgy
whatever but they totally deserver a bag of ants in their pants :P

_mallory