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Re: what to do in scenario where you have two sets of tabs in each direction?

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From: Steve Green
Date: Jul 22, 2019 1:23PM

This design sounds like it is effectively the same as Miller Columns, which are nested tablists. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_columns

My expectation is that both Miller Columns and your design will be incomprehensible to people who cannot see them, even if they are marked-up perfectly. Perhaps the most highly experienced screen reader users would be able to understand it, but the other 99% won't.

We have started doing internal research with screen reader users and I will include an example of Miller Columns in our next session on Friday to see if my suspicions are supported. I would love to hear if anyone else has done user testing on Miller Columns or any form of nested tablists.

I don't understand why your developer thinks this would be difficult to implement unless he is using a particular JavaScript framework that makes it difficult.

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd