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Disabled buttons demo (disabled vs aria-disabled)

If a control looks disabled but still takes focus and activates, keyboard and screen reader users can trigger actions they were told they couldn’t. In real products this often happens when “disabling” is done with CSS only.

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Keyboard: Tab to move · Enter/Space to activate
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AFTER: real <button disabled> + aria-disabled when needed
To enable Submit, check “Can submit?”. When disabled, the button is removed from the tab order automatically.
Example: a link styled as a button
When “Can submit?” is unchecked, this link is disabled using aria-disabled="true", removed from the tab order (tabindex="-1"), and activation is prevented.
Submit disabled.

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