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Re: Example of a page where underlying code order is different from appearance (where, for instance, a dialog box pops up next to control visually, but appears at the bottom of the page in code order)

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From: Steve Green
Date: Mar 26, 2012 4:45PM

Some pages of the BBC website have a focus order that does not reflect the
layout. It is a huge website so the pages are built on a variety of
templates, not all of which are bad. However, the search results page is.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/search/news/?q=fish

The focus order starts with the logo and 'skip' links as expected, but it
then goes through all the links in the three columns. After that it jumps to
the search box and navigation links at the top of the page, then back down
to the footer links. I can't imagine who thought this was a good idea. Most
of the website was like this until recently. To make matters worse, the
focus indicator is not visible when some links have focus in Firefox.

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd