November 26, 2025
I found a weird issue during a recent accessibility audit. I was testing a slideshow using the NVDA screen reader and keyboard navigation. The slideshow uses tab controls for the controls to switch the slides (incorrect IMO, but that's a different topic).
The problem was that when my keyboard focus was on the currently selected tab/slideshow control, I couldn't use up and down arrow keys to…
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Buttons with the tab role prevent NVDA keyboard navigation