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From: Mark Magennis
Date: Sep 27, 2017 8:50AM

I'm assessing an implementation here where, when a tab is selected using Enter, all tabs are given aria-hidden="true". This means that arrowing down skips past them to the open panel. The problem is, the tabs are never unhidden, so they are subsequently completely inaccessible.

I wonder is there a good way of clearing aria-hidden when the user has skipped past the hidden tabs? I guess this would involve clearing it when user enters the tab panel and when the user TABs or SHIFT+TABs out of the tab list.

Is it feasible to do this using JS in a reliable way that doesn't have unwanted side effects?

Mark

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