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Re: ARIA-Multiselectable and JAWS?

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Jun 9, 2020 7:22PM

Yeap, you're definitely overcomplicating this a lot here.
A simple accordion pattern will do.
You can even use the HTML5 <details>/<summary> attributes to create it
without hardly any ARIA whatsoever (granted IE11 support is not good,
but outside of that browser support is pretty good).
A multi-selectable tab pattern is definitely not what you want to do here.
In Iceland we call this "crossing the river to get water", when you
over complicate stuff, but the good news is that simpler is easier.


On 6/9/20, glen walker < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> I also noticed (although you didn't ask :-) ), that your "About" menu has
> some items with an indicator (triangle) meaning they open in separate pages
> and others that don't have an indicator. From a pure AA conformance
> perspective, you don't necessarily have to convey that a link opens a new
> tab (although some might say that 2.4.4 implies an "opens in new page" is
> necessary to convey the "purpose" of the link). However, the fact that you
> have a visual clue that a link opens in a new page *would* require that you
> convey that same information to assistive technology because there's a
> "relationship" conveyed through presentation (1.3.1).
>
> That is, if none of the links had the triangle indicator but some of them
> opened in new pages, you don't necessarily have to convey that to assistive
> technology (because it's not conveyed to anyone). But if you have a visual
> clue that something different will happen, that "something different"
> should be conveyed to everyone.
> > > > >


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