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Re: Using multiple checkboxes that amount to a keyboard trap or any other WCAG success criteria failure?

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Jul 15, 2020 6:26AM

You learn something new every day *grin*.
Who in the world would ever think this a good idea?
But, I agree, I have a hard time pinning this on a specific WCAG
success criterion, but it definitely is awful usability for all and
you could say it goess against the spirit of guideline 2.1, keyboard,
as this is almost impossible to operate with a keyboard.
If it had a search filter at the top so users can narrow down the
number of checkboxes to something management, that might be an option.
I'm looking into designing an accessible transaction table, and this
is one of the things we're trying to figure out.

On 7/14/20, Steve Green < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Wing was being tactful, but the scenario is not hypothetical - one of our
> clients actually built a page containing more than 1000 checkboxes.
> Furthermore, they put them into an accordion, which means you can only ever
> see 6 of them at any time, so you have no idea how many there are.
>
> I mention this just in case anyone was thinking "no one would ever do
> that".
>
> Steve Green
> Managing Director
> Test Partners Ltd
>
>
>