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Re: XHTML tab order and Flash

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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Aug 19, 2009 6:40AM


What version are you using?

Thanks,
AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick

Senior Product Manager, Accessibility

Adobe Systems

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From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Steven Henderson
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 4:10 AM
To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] XHTML tab order and Flash

Hi Andrew,

Much preferring the new HTML/Flash demo.

Not sure if I got the right link, but the following example DOESN'T tab
between the HTML links and the Flash links, as it did before (just skips
Flash altogether - in Firefox, but works in IE):
http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility/assets/acclinkexample/index2.html

Is it perhaps because the tabindex isn't being added dynamically as
expected?

Steven




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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Andrew
Kirkpatrick
Sent: 18 August 2009 18:06
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] XHTML tab order and Flash

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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