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From: Vemaarapu Venkatesh
Date: Aug 3, 2016 8:42AM

Hello all, Greetings

If we consider tab panel, we should use arrow keys to interact with tabs
inside the widget if I am not wrong.

https://support.skype.com/en/faq/fa109/i-ve-forgotten-my-username-or-password

When I interacted with the tab panel present in the above link, I observed
1. When all tabs are in collapsed state, I hit tab to enter into tab panel.
Then I thought that focus moves out of tab panel to "Yes" button if I hit
tab key once again. But navigation continues in tab panel i.e the other two
tab items are in tab order. This behavior is not seen when any one of tab
items is expanded.
I feel that interaction inside the tab panel should be only with arrow keys
but not with tab key anytime.
2. If I am expanding any tab item, the already selected tab item is not
getting collapsed automatically. User has to collapse and expand manually.

Whether these two behaviors are recommendable when I am interacting with
tab panel widget.

Hope you will correct me if I am going wrong with my perception.

Regards,
venkatesh