Create Accessible Tabs with HTML, CSS & JS

Creating tabs takes a bit of work, and making sure they’re accessible can be a little tricky. First, you should ask if you even need tabs in the first place, but assuming you do, this video looks at creating some progressively enhanced tabs. 🔗 Links ✅ The finished code: https://codepen.io/kevinpowell/pen/oNQgRKm ✅ Accessibility guidelines for tabs: https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns/tabs/ ✅ Heydon Pickering’s site: https://heydonworks.com/ ✅ Heydon’s Webbed Briefs (watch these, they’re great): https://briefs.video/ ✅ Equalize Digital’s Accessibility Checker for WordPress: https://equalizedigital.com/accessibility-checker/ ⌚ Timestamps 00:00 - Introduction 00:50 - Maybe tabs are a bad idea 03:13 - The HTML 06:45 - Showing only the active tab content 09:50 - Showing the correct tab panel when we click on a new tab 17:45 - Assistive technologies, ARIA, and roles 20:38 - Adding roles to the list and list items 26:30 - How to know the expected and best ways for interaction like this 28:30 - aria-controls don’t actually do anything? 29:58 - Making the panels focusable and the tabs and panels the correct roles 32:00 - Adding aria-selected to the active tab 33:10 - Styling it up with semantic CSS 35:14 - Updating the active panel when we select a new tab 36:40 - Giving screen readers more information 39:04 - Adding keyboard navigation to switch between tabs 50:15 - Improvements and changes that you can make to this #css -- Come hang out with other dev's in my Discord Community 💬 https://discord.gg/nTYCvrK Keep up to date with everything I'm up to ✉ https://www.kevinpowell.co/newsletter Come hang out with me live every Monday on Twitch! 📺 https://www.twitch.tv/kevinpowellcss --- Help support my channel 👨‍🎓 Get a course: https://www.kevinpowell.co/courses 👕 Buy a shirt: https://teespring.com/stores/making-the-internet-awesome 💖 Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/kevinpowell --- My editor: VS Code - https://code.visualstudio.com/ --- I'm