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Allow disabled items to be focused

Open mlshv opened this issue 2 years ago • 11 comments

🙋 Feature Request

I am using useLink and useButton hooks from react-aria, but I've noticed that if those are disabled, element doesn't get focus. According to this thread on stackexachange:

If disabled buttons are not focusable with TAB, our user would occasionally miss that the button ever exists, and they will never find it.

So I'd like to be able to enable focus on disabled elements like links or buttons.

🔦 Context

There are situations when a screenreader user wouldn't know about a UI element which is disabled.

💻 Examples

Disabled button is not focusable: https://react-spectrum.adobe.com/react-aria/useButton.html

mlshv avatar Oct 19 '22 09:10 mlshv