RE: Handling Tab Strips On The Web

Hi Jim,

We recommend the WAI-ARIA design pattern for the Tab Panel: https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices/#tabpanel 

My experience with NVDA using this pattern is positive. It appears to emulate pretty well the native OS experience within dialog boxes. If I want to exit application mode, I'll simply hit Insert + Space or Tab out of the tab list. As long as the proper keyboard considerations have been made, it's not difficult to bypass this block.

Thanks,

Nick Beranek
Capital One

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Homme [mailto:jhomme@benderconsult.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2016 4:15 PM
To: WAI IG
Subject: Handling Tab Strips On The Web

Hi,
I'm starting to feel that the best way for a developer to handle tab strips on web pages is to put the ARIA application role around them to force the screen reader to use that mode, but wanted to get some opinions on how to handle this sort of thing. I'm asking about this because I'm a screen reader user trying to understand what to tell developers to do, and trying to keep my personal opinions out of the answer and failing to some degree. I'm looking at a web page that has tab controls part way down and thinking to myself that I'm torn between wanting the screen reader to automatically go into application mode and not wanting it to do that because I want to keep reading past the tab controls to see what else is there because that's how normal browse mode works. 

I hope this half made sense.

Thanks.

Jim

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Received on Wednesday, 27 July 2016 20:36:09 UTC