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Re: tabpanel mark-up, possible effect of role=presentation

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From: _mallory
Date: Aug 6, 2015 12:54PM

Little pictures of arrows do not change the years of training by
every website that you tab from focusable to focusable.

Users discover arrows by tabbing and shift-tabbing around several
times before then giving Plan B (the arrows) a try. This may or
may not be after trying various combinations of ctrl, alt, and
shift.

This will hopefully go away as more sites start using arrows for
tabs.

_mallory

On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 11:21:16AM -0700, Bryan Garaventa wrote:
> > Also for keyboard-only users without AT wouldn't it be hard to know when to use arrow navigation in tabs?
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> Not if the widget is programmed intuitively.
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> E.G If the tabs flow from left to right in a single row, it would be a simple matter to use a CSS pseudo element such as :after to append left/right pointing arrows to clue the sighted keyboard user into this functionality.
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