Keyboard accessibility: changing tab order

[E.J. Zufelt]

Good morning,

I would add to this that it is not ideal to try to add focusability to  
an element that does not natively support focus.

HTH,
Everett

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On 27-Jan-10, at 11:55 AM, Armin Krauss wrote:

> Hi Boyan,
>
> the best way to have a tab order and comply with WCAG easily is to  
> have the content in a order that needs no tab order. This means that  
> the content is structured and sorted in the way the tab order should  
> flow. Then you don't need to override the tab order. As a byproduct  
> the content has a structure that makes for an user with AT more sense.
>
> See 1.3.2 and 2.1.1 among others on http://webaim.org/standards/wcag/checklist
>
> Hope that helps a bit.
>
> Armin
>
> --
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 07:12, Boyan Sheytanov <boyan.sheytanov at asteasolutions.com 
> > wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I was trying to force the following tab order of the elements in  
> Capture for Decapod: thumbnail item, take picture button, fix,  
> compare, export. Since the buttons are <a> elements, they were  
> easily ordered (having assigned them positive values for  
> 'tabindex'). However, they do not seem to respond to pressing the  
> Enter key. Additionally, the thumbnail item is a <li> element and  
> the only valid values for the tabindex property are -1 or 0 (correct  
> me if I am wrong here). These make the element focusable or part of  
> the default tab order but I cannot find a way to make it the first  
> element of the tab order.
>
> My question is what is the 'proper' way to modify tab order and  
> enable keyboard navigation in accessible web applications.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Boyan
>
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