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Re: Any ARIA conforming tab panels out there in the wild?

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From: Steve Green
Date: May 18, 2018 10:13AM

That example works ok with keyboard navigation but it's not a great user experience with JAWS. In common with most, but not all, examples of tabbed interfaces it's necessary to use the hideous Alt+Insert+M shortcut to get to the tabpanel.

I find this to be the most difficult of all the JAWS shortcuts and I would be interested to know what JAWS users think of it. In fact, I wonder how many JAWS users ever use it, other than professionals like the people on this forum. Has anyone done any user testing with tabbed interfaces? I am tempted to include this example in the next project we do even though it's unrelated to anything we will be working on.

Regards,
Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd