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

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From: Brian Lovely
Date: Jul 22, 2019 1:51PM

Yeah, the only thing I could think of was some kind of off-screen
instructions.

On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 3:23 PM Steve Green < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> This design sounds like it is effectively the same as Miller Columns,
> which are nested tablists. See
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Miller-5Fcolumns&d=DwICAg&c=pLULRYW__RtkwsQUPxJVDGboCTdgji3AcHNJU0BpTJE&r=MMimM36KI-FWX0bnlG1RIV6Bl3MtdwmuKJCwL2Q3WrQ&m=ZXxx0zHjUYr_CfYj4Ky4ckzYoQBMhtiXSbxUIqeW_WA&s=PBn8k_opscOmMm1K6oAD19IakaiDtLS-_Fpwlg-kRvs&e=
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> 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
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