[nfbcs] Tabbing to Disabled Web Controls

[Steve Jacobson]

At some point, we have to figure out when we're over-managing.  Does it really matter that much if one approach is much more work 
than another?  There are so many roadblocks to accessibility, that it seems like overkill to me to define accessibility at this 
level when either approach is workable.  This assumes, of course, that disabled controls that are grayed out or whatever are 
identified by the screen reader.  

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

On Wed, 3 Apr 2013 17:48:21 -0700, Mike Freeman wrote:

>I agree with David andrews; if you can't activate controls, there's no
>reason to be able to tab to them.

>Mike


>-----Original Message-----
>From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jim Barbour
>Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 5:41 PM
>To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Tabbing to Disabled Web Controls

>Hmmm, I think I'm in the other camp.  I definately think they should be read
>as "dimmed", but if users are tabbing around they might want to know that
>there is a submit button there, but that you can't activiate it yet.

>Jim

>On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 07:36:47PM -0500, David Andrews wrote:
>> No, they should just show up as dimmed, and since you can't do 
>> anything with them you probably shouldn't be able to tab to them.
>> 
>> Dave
>> 
>> At 09:04 PM 3/31/2013, you wrote:
>> >The other day, at work, some of us who work on or are interested in 
>> >web accessibility were discussing whether or not it should be 
>> >possible to tab to a web control, such as a button or a checkbox, 
>> >that is disabled. The two scenarios that we discussed are:
>> >1. There is a web form that has text fields that must be filled in 
>> >with certain types of information, and the submit button is disabled 
>> >until the requirements are met.
>> >2. There is a form with radio buttons. Depending on which radio 
>> >buttons are checked, certain checkboxes are enabled or disabled.
>> >I am curious to know what people think of this. Should it be possible 
>> >to tab to the disabled submit button in the first scenario? The 
>> >disabled checkboxes in the second scenario? Should there be a 
>> >standard for different control types--such as button vs. checkbox, or 
>> >is this something that really should be decided on a case by case basis?
>> >
>> >Nicole
>> 
>> 
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