WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

Re: Danger! Testing Accessibility with real people — Medium

for

From: Alastair Campbell
Date: May 14, 2016 6:14PM

Hi Bryan,

I'm afraid I spent too much time writing an article, I won't get a chance
until next week.

The article was a follow up to yours (and Leonie's et al) and the original
"Danger" one:
https://alastairc.ac/2016/05/aria-tabs-ui-problems-and-standards/

Whilst I generally agree with your conclusions, I think there is some
nuance, and tabs are unique among the ARIA widgets in how people expect
them to work.

A couple of years ago I observed some testing with people and came to
fairly similar conclusions to Jeff Smith's article. Whilst I wouldn't drop
the ARIA markup, the interaction (in a web context) doesn't seem quite
right yet.

Kind regards,

-Alastair