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Re: ARIA tabs interaction

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From: _mallory
Date: Apr 29, 2016 2:45PM

This is already the problem. Tabs worked for sighted keyboarders,
but now they don't.

Honestly, whenever some committee decides to change how the web
has traditionally does things, it should insist that all developers
who do this add visible plain-text for all of us telling us the
new way of doing things. I suck as badly at guessing the new
unicorn keystrokes that will now work as much as I suck at
guessing what the squiggly eyeball icon with no label text means.

Because on the web, this is a very new, and different, way of
doing things. Sighted people are not psychic. The web doesn't
act like desktop. Mousers don't double-click there. Things styled
with CSS to emulate fake tabs have traditionally been anchors,
and anchors can be tabbed to with tab. Or so we have been tricked
to believe in the past.

I kinda wish I could force everyone to watch real humans slowly
curse at their keyboards and wonder why they had to be unlucky
enough to be born too stupid to figure out how to use a computer
whenever they run across these things. It will break your hearts.

_mallory

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 05:43:46PM +0000, Bryan Garaventa wrote:
> The danger of this logic being, if everybody does this differently, nobody will ever understand what is expected now or in the future.
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> Bryan Garaventa
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