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Re: Tabs and focus

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From: Paul J. Adam
Date: Aug 25, 2016 11:49AM

I wrote a blog post on this somewhat recently, http://www.deque.com/blog/a11y-support-series-part-1-aria-tab-panel-accessibility/ <http://www.deque.com/blog/a11y-support-series-part-1-aria-tab-panel-accessibility/>;

In my demo that deviates from the authoring practices I have all the tabs available in the tab order or users can activate the arrow keys to move between tabs.

I don't recommend jumping their focus down to the tab panel because they may want to activate a different tab or read all the tabs before actually moving focus into it.

Paul J. Adam
Accessibility Evangelist
www.deque.com

> On Aug 25, 2016, at 11:57 AM, Joseph Sherman < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> Question: When using tabs like five items in a horizontal row each with some text content, is it better to jump focus to the content when the user expands or activates the tab or have the user have to go through the other tabs to get to content?
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> Also, the specs (https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices-1.1/#tabpanel) say that only the active tab should be in the tab order and users should use arrows to move through tabs. Is this another area when the specs are ahead of user expectations?
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> Thanks.
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> Joseph
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