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From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: May 16, 2016 1:33PM

The word "tab" actually has been around for many years to indicate this type of functionality, and this is what ARIA Tabs map to in the accessibility API. So it's not just a name, but an actual role mapping in the accessibility tree.

E.G
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb760550(v=vs.85).aspx

" A tab control is analogous to the dividers in a notebook or the labels in a file cabinet. By using a tab control, an application can define multiple pages
for the same area of a window or dialog box. Each page consists of a certain type of information or a group of controls that the application displays when
the user selects the corresponding tab."

The same type of mapping occurs in OS X, iOS, and other operating systems.

You can read how this works at
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/03/web-accessibility-with-accessibility-api/

Also, for a complete training of how ARIA works from beginning to end, you can read
http://whatsock.com/training/

And to physically observe ARIA usage within any web technology, you can use Visual ARIA, available at
http://whatsock.com/training/matrices/visual-aria.htm


Bryan Garaventa
Accessibility Fellow
SSB BART Group, Inc.
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