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Re: Radio Button strange behaviour in Firefox.

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Jun 24, 2020 9:30AM

Shawn

That is an expected behavior for a set of radio buttons where no radio
button has been selected, (they're all focusable until one has been
selected). You don't see this often because one of the radio buttons
is typically selected by default (and that is the recommendation for
the pattern).
What I find odd on this page is that Chrome with Jaws announces "1 of
6" for the first radiobutton, there are 2 sets of 3. I thought they
all had the same "name" attribute (which would cause a screen reader
to perceive them as one set) but they don't.
Granted they should be in two separate <fieldset> or anotehr grouping
element, but I'm still surprised that Jaws perceives them as one set.



On 6/24/20, Murphy, Sean < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> All,
>
> If you visit this site for a standard radio button:
>
> https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml5_input_type_radio
>
> Using Firefox with NVDA or Jaws. When an option in the radio button is not
> selected. Using the tab key, takes you to each options within the radio
> button component. Once the option is selected, then the tab order works as
> expected. Using Chrome, this behaviour does not occur. Instead the tab key
> takes you to the next control.
>
>
> Note: If the option in the radio button is pre-selected, then the issue
> described above does not occur.
>
> Is this a Firefox defect?
>
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