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#7845 closed bug (fixed)

Opened November 08, 2011 02:56PM UTC

Closed June 09, 2012 02:26AM UTC

Tabs: default accessibility

Reported by: ezufelt Owned by:
Priority: blocker Milestone: 1.9.0
Component: ui.tabs Version: 1.8.16
Keywords: a11y Cc:
Blocked by: Blocking:
Description

Firefox 7.0.1

JAWS 13

Tabs demo 1.9pre

Problem

The semantics of a tablist are not recognized by JAWS.

Solution

1. The list of tabs should be marked up w/ role='tablist'.

2. Each tab should be marked up with role='tab'

3. Each tab panel should be marked up with role='tabpanel'

See

http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/roles#tablist

Attachments (0)
Change History (2)

Changed November 09, 2011 01:23PM UTC by scottgonzalez comment:1

component: ui.coreui.tabs
keywords: → a11y
priority: minorblocker
status: newopen

Changed June 09, 2012 02:26AM UTC by Scott González comment:2

resolution: → fixed
status: openclosed

Tabs: Implement ARIA + Key handling. Fixes #3079 - Tabs: keyboard accessibility. Fixes #7845 - Tabs: default accessibility.

Changeset: 48588d3bef746129aa66e5fa915da2962a1a4014