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Re: XHTML tab order and Flash

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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Aug 18, 2009 9:30AM

Exactly, thanks Benjamin.

Thanks,
AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick

Senior Product Manager, Accessibility

Adobe Systems

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From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 11:06 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] XHTML tab order and Flash

On 18/08/2009 15:54, Steven Henderson wrote:
> However, any ideas as to why in Firefox, Flash receives the tab focus before
> XHTML links on the page, even though they are higher up in the markup?

IIRC the Flash focus script works by setting "tabindex" attributes.

Per the HTML spec, links with an explicit "tabindex" receive focus
before links without "tabindex".

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis