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Re: XHTML tab order and Flash

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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Aug 18, 2009 11:10AM

I added an additional example to the blog entry at http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility/2009/04/firefox_focus_and_actual_links_1.html. There is now a link to a page with HTML content before and after the Flash content.

Just so you know, this example does use the tabindex attribute, but the script that is invoked by the Flash content and the tabindex attributes and values are added dynamically. If you are doing additional scripting work that does similar things then you'll want to make sure that there are no conflicts, but that isn't a surprise when integrating multiple scripts.

The extra tab that you're noticing just before and after the Flash content when using Firefox is a generated link in the HTML that helps mediate the focus getting to the Flash content. I agree that it isn't ideal, but it is part of the solution we have here to get around the problem in getting focus passed between Firefox and Flash player.

Hope this helps.

Thanks,
AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick

Senior Product Manager, Accessibility

Adobe Systems

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