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

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From: _mallory
Date: May 7, 2015 8:03AM

On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 08:47:52AM -0400, Birkir R. Gunnarsson wrote:
> I usually allow either tabs or arrows, I find it confusing, as a user,
> to only allow arrows.
As a user I've been "taught" by websites for over a decade that
I can Tab between "tabs", as they've never before ARIA been
anything other than links with CSS styling and some Javascript
woo to do the hide/show stuff.

But I can't go against the spec, even for usabiltiy.

_mallory