[nfbcs] Tabbing to Disabled Web Controls

[Mike Freeman]

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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