[Bug 17114] With the prevalence of tabbed navigation in newer websites, it would be nice to have a block element called "tab" to be used in the nav block element. Thank you.

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17114

Devarshi Pant <devarshipant@gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Devarshi Pant <devarshipant@gmail.com> 2012-06-12 20:19:38 UTC ---
When an active tabbed panel is made visually discernable using a different
background color, it's equivalent is not available to screen reader users --
Can this info on active tab be passed on to screen readers using html5? 
Thanks, 
Devarshi

(In reply to comment #0)
> Specification:
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/sections.html
> Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-nav-element
> Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-nav-element
> Comment:
> With the prevalence of tabbed navigation in newer websites, it would be nice
> to have a block element called "tab" to be used in the nav block element.
> Thank you.
> Posted from: 173.245.64.56
> User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101
> Firefox/12.0

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Received on Tuesday, 12 June 2012 20:19:41 UTC