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From: Mark Magennis
Date: Apr 17, 2023 10:24AM

One of the problems users have with tablists is that to be coherent to sighted keyboard users they have to look like tabs. If they look like a series of buttons or links users will expect them to behave that way and will not expect to have to use the arrow keys to select a different tab . When tabbing between them doesn't work they may become confused or think they are unavailable or not working.

Back in the old days tabs used to look like paper filing cabinet tabs so that was fine. The keyboard interaction was guessable. But I think we're talking here about a vertical list of options and vertical tablists are rare. And I'll bet your UX designers have no intention of making them look anything like tabs.

So I wouldn't use a tablist here.

Mark