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Bug 17114 - 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.
Summary: With the prevalence of tabbed navigation in newer websites, it would be nice ...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-05-19 00:00 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-07-26 04:44 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-05-19 00:00:21 UTC 
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
Comment 1 Devarshi Pant 2012-06-12 20:19:38 UTC 
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
Comment 2 contributor 2012-07-18 17:49:12 UTC 
This bug was cloned to create bug 18245 as part of operation convergence.
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-07-26 04:44:17 UTC 
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.