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Re: XHTML tab order and Flash

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From: Steven Henderson
Date: Sep 9, 2009 3:00AM

I've been hacking my head around how they've done it, but webcredible seem
to have a much tighter tab setup. Check it out: http://www.webcredible.co.uk
- check out how tabbing to and from, the main nav banner works.

The flash/html tab integration is almost seemless, apart from just the 'one'
extra tab to select the flash object (appears that this is presently
unavoidable in their method too).

After a few basic local tests, the only con appears to be that the tabindex
seems to be hardest to 2 (no matter where I put the tabindex in the
document, the second tab will always activate the flash nav banner).
Assuming that this is set in either the js file or flash movie, I can see it
working great for many sites that can make use of a defined tabindex
(especially where there is one main flash object that needs tab
integration).

Now, if only I could wrap my head around how they've tightened the tab
process, then merge both methods together to create an uber-method.

Steven