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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: Mallory
Date: Jul 23, 2019 3:07AM

>A big difference is that it's easy to navigate up and down the tree in a terminal, but it's not easy to navigate up a tree in nested tablists.

Just as it is difficult for many to perform the basics of drag and drop. But the more successful interfaces offered more than one way to do the task-- so I wondered if a straight-up tree as an additional navigation mechanism would be better than making everyone try to make nested tablists work.

cheers,
Mallory

On Tue, Jul 23, 2019, at 10:36 AM, Steve Green wrote:
> A big difference is that it's easy to navigate up and down the tree in
> a terminal, but it's not easy to navigate up a tree in nested tablists.
>
> It's another example of a cool new user interface concept getting
> promoted without any user research having been done (that I am aware
> of) to assess the usability and accessibility. This is one reason why
> both usability and accessibility of websites have been getting worse
> for so many years.
>
> Steve
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