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Re: Navigating via headings in VoiceOver

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From: Jonathan C. Cohn
Date: Jun 8, 2015 1:40PM

If you are doing this testing on a Macintosh then it will depend on your tracking settings on what happens. The tab is moving focus or keyboard while the quicknav keys will move the voiceover cursor.


Jonathan Cohn

> On Jun 8, 2015, at 2:22 PM, Moore,Michael (HHSC) < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> I believe that the correct use of Voice Over would be to use reading commands to read by line or paragraph until you encounter a link or other active element. Then tab will take you to the next. The tab key only moves from active element to active element. Adding a tab-index of 0 to the headings would make it more difficult to navigate the page for sighted keyboard users.
>
> Mike Moore
> Accessibility Coordinator
> Health and Human Services Commission
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Mickey Williamson
> Sent: Monday, June 08, 2015 1:16 PM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: [WebAIM] Navigating via headings in VoiceOver
>
> So I have a sample page with a list of links split into categories. Each category is an h3. Like so:
>
> <h3>Category 1</h3>
> <ul>
> <li>Link 1</li>
> <li>Link 2</li>
> </ul>
> <h3>Category 2</h3>
> <ul>
> <li>Link 1</li>
> <li>Link 2</li>
> </ul>
>
> And so on.
>
> Using VO with Safari, I bring up a list of the headings and jump to Category 2 by pressing enter on the Category 2 heading. That takes me to the category 2 heading. But if I want to continue in the category and press tab to navigate through the list of Category 2 links, I'm taken back to the top of the page. Does that mean that I should always be adding tabindex of 0 or 1 to all my headings? Or am I misusing VoiceOver?
>
> Thanks,
> Mickey
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