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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 7, 2015 12:29AM

On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 10:57:00PM -0500, Paul J. Adam wrote:
> I think that tab control widgets can allow both arrow key navigation and regular TAB to each tab itself navigation. This way no one would be lost as to how to operate the control :)

Really? I've been told by a number of people that tab has to go
into the tab list, next tab has to take you back out, unless you
open a tab, and then focus has to be moved into the panel (still
haven't figured a graceful way to do this part as our panels are
almost all text, so we've been tabindexing the panels and putting
focus in there, but that doesn't feel great either).

I mean tabs with role="tab" and "tabpanel" tabs.

We can also tab through tabs??

_mallory