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Re: CSS only Tab control using a radio button group - Good or Bad idea

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From: Léonie Watson
Date: Jul 22, 2022 1:59AM

As a screen reader user, I agree with Patrick. Hearing that there are
radio buttons sets up certain expectations about what they are, how they
work, and what they're for; hearing there is a set of tabs sets up other
expectations.



On 22/07/2022 08:30, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
> On 22/07/2022 06:56, Laurence Lewis wrote:
>> I was directed to a webpage on medium.com, and asked if repurposing a
>> radio
>> group visually as a TAB control is okay from an accessibility
>> perspective.
>>
>> I ask myself why would you, when there is an ARIA Tab control that
>> serves
>> this purpose, and that the ARIA pattern maps to the expectation of users
>> because it works the same as a Tab control on the Windows platform.
>>
>> I'd like to hear the opinion of other developers and assistive
>> technology
>> users on the pros and cons of this approach.
>
> The one "advantage" for development is that radio buttons give you
> most of the keyboard behaviour for tabs with automatic activation for
> free (in terms of only one/the active one gets focus, use cursor keys
> the change the active one). But conceptually, they can be confusing.
>
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Léonie Watson (she/her)
Director
https://tetralogical.com