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Re: Should disabled elements receive tab focus

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From: Sailesh Panchang
Date: Oct 28, 2016 10:42AM

Designers / developers need to review when it makes sense to include
disabled controls in the UI. For instance in the page navigation
links, the 'Next' button can be disabled and yet be rendered visually
when the last page is in view. It becomes conspicuous by being absent
in the tab order then!
On the other hand dependent controls generally should be hidden if
they are disabled. It makes for a cleaner uncluttered UI for everyone.
Please review
http://www.mindoversight.com/csun/2016/Overview.html
and example for poor design- disabled controls.
Thanks,
Sailesh


On 10/28/16, Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> So in the situation where there are two combo-boxes and a submit button on
>> a page, and the second combo box has no choices until the first combo box
>> has a selection made would you want that second combo to be in the tab
>> order? We were talking about adding a aria-disabled to the second combo
>> box until there are choices in the it, would make more sense to mark it
>> completely disabled?
>
> I'd say it is best practice to advise the user that changing something in a
> control will affect/change or add content later/further in the document.
>
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