Remove ability to use down and up arrow keys for tabs #106
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Hey @cmegown, thanks for pointing that out. The work done on the authoring practices recently has been great! The horizontal/vertical orientation is essentially down to a users' styling. We do make a recommendation that they render inline, but changing this to block and aligning them alongside the tabpanels is doable. Will put some thought into how to best offer both options. |
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Do you think having up/down arrow keys disabled by default, with an |
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I like that option. 👍 |
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Reminder: Good notes here http://w3c.github.io/aria-practices/#h-note20 |
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According to the relevant authoring practices documentation:
At first glance it made perfect sense to map those keys to allow tab navigation, but after reading the bit above it seems that interfering with default browser behavior is unwise.
Instead, the they should be conditionally applied if the tablist is vertically oriented. This component does not appear to provide support for vertical orientation right now, so perhaps simply removing the ability to use them is the best immediate course of action?
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