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Re: ARIA tabs interaction

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From: Jim Allan
Date: Apr 29, 2016 3:23PM

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On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 3:45 PM, _mallory < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >
> > Bryan Garaventa
> > Accessibility Fellow
> > SSB BART Group, Inc.
> > <EMAIL REMOVED>
> > 415.624.2709 (o)
> > www.SSBBartGroup.com
> >
> >
> >