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Re: forms, tab order, and "cancel" buttons

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From: ckrugman@sbcglobal.net
Date: Dec 9, 2009 11:03AM

As a JAWS user I find that this is not a problem as the appropriate buttons
can be located by using the arrow keys while in the JAWS cursor mode.
Chuck
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Subject: [WebAIM] forms, tab order, and "cancel" buttons


> My organization is in the process of putting up a feedback form,
> for which I have provided the relevant information about
> accessibility (e.g. WAI-ARIA, tabindex, labels, etc.). One thing
> I mentioned about accessibility is that the "Cancel" button
> appears immediately to the left of the "Send feedback" button.
>
> To me, this is clearly problematic for keyboard users. Your tab
> index, for usability reasons, should match your layout with
> left-to-right reading in a case like this, which means that a
> casual keyboard user can easily tab to and select the "Cancel"
> button instead of the "Send feedback" button. But our web
> designer says that having "Cancel" to the left of "Send feedback"
> is standard design, and following general layout standards
> provides its own benefits for usability.
>
> How do people usually deal with this? A developer doesn't want to
> remove the "Cancel" button, because he doesn't want any data in
> the form to accidentally send on reload.
>
> -deborah
>