Digital Hall of Fame Tablist Keyboard Audit for Sport and Era Navigation
A digital hall of fame ARIA tablist audit is a structured keyboard and screen-reader review confirming that every sport-category tab strip and era navigation tab strip on your recognition platform implements the complete WAI-ARIA tablist pattern—so visitors browsing inductees by sport or graduation decade can navigate between tabs using arrow keys, move focus into the active inductee panel using the Tab key, and hear the tab’s name, role, count, and selected state announced without relying on visual styling. The short answer for school athletic directors, IT teams, and administrators: identify every tab strip on your hall of fame pages; press Tab once to reach the tablist and confirm focus lands on the active tab; press the Right Arrow key to confirm focus moves to the next tab without leaving the strip; press the Tab key to confirm focus enters the associated inductee panel; open DevTools and verify each tab carries role="tab", aria-selected, aria-controls, and a tabindex of 0 (active) or -1 (inactive); then confirm the same behavior with NVDA or VoiceOver before each induction season.
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