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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


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Sent: 23 March 2012 20:16
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] 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 ocde order)

I just took a screenshot of a poor contrast error message on one of our
internal apps. I would be happy to send you a jpeg.
Angela French

>Also a page with bad color contrast or links that are not underlined
>(although I have a screenshot of such a page, which I can use in a PP
slide).
>I will donate my presentations slides back to w3C and anyone else who
>is interested, once I have collected them and made my presentations.
>Thanks to the W3C Education and Outreach group for good work.
>Hans Hillen and co for their wonderful presentation on HTML and ARIA
>(work
>shop) from CSUN, one that I borrow examples from (for demo
>purposes)
>and some of the bloggers here, whose quotes I want to borrow (with full
>accreditation of course).
>Keep up the good work.
>-Birkir
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