[Bug 18245] Conveying state of an Active tab in tabbed panels to Assistive Technologies like screen readers

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=18245

--- Comment #16 from Devarshi Pant <devarshipant@gmail.com> ---
A form field list (Ins + F5 in JAWS 13 / IE8 / Win 7) shows radio button
controls as 'Tab 1 Tab' 'Tab 2 Tab' etc. A radio button control list (Ins +
Ctrl + r) gives a list of radio buttons as 'Tab 1 radio button checked' 'Tab 2
radio button not checked' etc.
Where is the semantic equivalent for the active tab, unless the key word here
is 'radio button checked'?
-Devarshi

(In reply to comment #15)
> there's actually no css/html additons needed for that:

You can already do
> it by adding a (visually hidden) <input type="radio"
> aria-controls="tabpanelid"> to store the tabstate (along with the appriate
> role attributes)

An example page showing this approach can be found at
> http://freemen.be/examples/tabs_example.html

Tested to work in the current
> incarnation of all 4 major browsers.

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