You can use the tab key to move only the focus, which will read the tab title and tell you whether it's active or not. Then you can press either space or return to activate that tab.
Sorry, I was also referring to the examples at w3.org.
The one you linked as These keyboard requirements can be found here was Example of Tabs with Automatic Activation, but there was also Example of Tabs with Manual Activation
where indeed you need to press Space or Return.
However, in both of those, the whole tab bar is a single Tab target, as in "you focus the whole thing and the next Tab press takes you out of it entirely".
Sort of like if it was a slider input or something of the sort.
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You can use the tab key to move only the focus, which will read the tab title and tell you whether it's active or not. Then you can press either space or return to activate that tab.
Sorry, I was also referring to the examples at w3.org.
The one you linked as These keyboard requirements can be found here was Example of Tabs with Automatic Activation, but there was also Example of Tabs with Manual Activation where indeed you need to press
SpaceorReturn.However, in both of those, the whole tab bar is a single
Tabtarget, as in "you focus the whole thing and the nextTabpress takes you out of it entirely".Sort of like if it was a slider
inputor something of the sort.