17114 2012-05-19 00:00:21 +0000 With the prevalence of tabbed navigation in newer websites, it would be nice to have a block element called "tab" to be used in the nav block element. Thank you. 2012-07-26 04:44:17 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED WONTFIX http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-nav-element P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian devarshipant hans.hillen ian mike contributor oldest_to_newest 67912 0 contributor 2012-05-19 00:00:21 +0000 Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/sections.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-nav-element Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-nav-element Comment: With the prevalence of tabbed navigation in newer websites, it would be nice to have a block element called "tab" to be used in the nav block element. Thank you. Posted from: 173.245.64.56 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0 69009 1 devarshipant 2012-06-12 20:19:38 +0000 When an active tabbed panel is made visually discernable using a different background color, it's equivalent is not available to screen reader users -- Can this info on active tab be passed on to screen readers using html5? Thanks, Devarshi (In reply to comment #0) > Specification: > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/sections.html > Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-nav-element > Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-nav-element > Comment: > With the prevalence of tabbed navigation in newer websites, it would be nice > to have a block element called "tab" to be used in the nav block element. > Thank you. > Posted from: 173.245.64.56 > User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 > Firefox/12.0 70957 2 contributor 2012-07-18 17:49:12 +0000 This bug was cloned to create bug 18245 as part of operation convergence. 71484 3 ian 2012-07-26 04:44:17 +0000 Tabs seem like an alternative presentation, not a semantic. Consider, how would it render in a voice environment? (Not a screen reader environment, which is basically a visual reader.) How would it render in print, without hiding something? Basically tabs are like scrollbars, an overflow mechanism. I think it should be handled by Web Components and CSS.