Tabs

Demo

https://v505e.csb.app/

Browser Support

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Usage

import { AwcTabs, AwcTab, AwcPanel } from '@accessible-web-components/tabs';

window.customElements.define('awc-tabs', AwcTabs);
window.customElements.define('awc-tab', AwcTab);
window.customElements.define('awc-panel', AwcPanel);

<awc-tabs>
  <awc-tab role="heading" slot="tab" id="my-first-tab" >Tab 1</awc-tab>
  <awc-panel role="region" slot="panel" id="my-first-panel">
    <h2>My first tab</h2>
    <p>Here is some text…</p>
    <ul>
      <li>…and a list</p>
    </ul>

    <button type="button">I am a focusable element within the tab</button>
  </awc-panel>

  <awc-tab role="heading" slot="tab">Tab 2</awc-tab>
  <awc-panel role="region" slot="panel">Content 2</awc-panel>

  <awc-tab role="heading" slot="tab">Tab 3</awc-tab>
  <awc-panel role="region" slot="panel">Content 3</awc-panel>
</awc-tabs>

• The roles of heading and region are replaced by tab and tabpanel respectively at runtime. They provide some level of redundancy to the new elements should there be a runtime error.

Requirements

Per https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices-1.2/#tabpanel:

Keyboard

• Focus on active tab element
• Left arrow: previous
• Right arrow: next
• Space/Enter: activate
• Home: first
• End: last

Roles

• Container has a role of tablist
• tablist should be labelledby active tab
• Each element representing a tab has the role tab and is contained within the tablist
• Each element representing tab content has the role of tabpanel