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Re: Interaction with tab panels

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From: Sean Murphy
Date: Aug 4, 2016 10:25PM

I completely agree, as I am a screen reader user myself. :-)
> On 4 Aug 2016, at 11:01 PM, Jamous, JP < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> Sean,
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> Quite interesting as I faced it myself first-hand when I taught blind folks how to use JAWS. The average person lacks the understanding of containers and how each responds to keyboard commands. I know because I have been a programmer and a JAWS scripter too. Yet, on some dropdowns, I do wonder sometimes which will make me go through the menu items as the developer might use tab and shift + tab rather than arrow keys.
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> A prime example, JAWS and the worthless ribbon bar in Office. You can tab or shift + tab with it or use the arrow keys. Sometimes, you cannot use the up or down arrow keys and you have to use the left or right ones.
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> Please, give me my dropdown menus again. The ribbon is terrible and even sighted folks agree with me. Most of them including programmers do not like the ribbon bar.
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> I agree that a standard should be enforced in this regard.
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