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Re: Tabbing in Safari and Opera

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From: David Ashleydale
Date: Apr 1, 2013 3:17PM

Yes, that's correct.

On Monday, April 1, 2013, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:

> On 01/04/2013 22:01, David Ashleydale wrote:
> > Hi Angela,
> >
> > That's just how Safari works. Tabbing only takes you from form field to
> > firm field. You can get it to tab to links by doing Option -Tab.
>
> Or change it in Safari's preferences, Advanced, "Press Tab to highlight
> each item on a webpage" which then reverses the behavior, making Tab go
> to links as well and Option+Tab skipping links.
>
> Opera uses a completely esoteric set of keyboard controls: SHIFT+cursors
> for "spatial navigation" (where the visual position of items is taken
> into account, and you can move up/down/left/right and it'll try and find
> the nearest other focusable element in that direction) and CMD+up/down
> for the traditional tab/shift+tab of moving to the next/previous link.
>
> Note that the upcoming webkit-based Opera 14 is likely to adhere to what
> Chrome/Chromium does, which is to just use Tab/Shift+Tab like any other
> browser.
>
> P
>
> > David
> >
> > On Monday, April 1, 2013, Angela French wrote:
> >
> >> I just noticed something about Safari and Opera on my agency's
> websites. I
> >> feel it must be a user error or something on the page itself. I can't
> use
> >> the tab key to navigate around. When I try, the focus just repeatedly
> >> alternates focus between the address field and the browser search field.
> >> Can anyone tell me what the hang up might be on my sites? Here are two
> >> sample pages.
> >>
> >> http://checkoutacollege.com/GetStarted/GED.aspx
> >> http://www.sbctc.edu/college/e_achievingthedream.aspx
> >>
> >> In Opera, this page never moves out of my site's search field.
> >> http://www.sbctc.edu/college/e_achievingthedream.aspx
> >> In Opera, I can't get anywhere on this site:
> >> http://checkoutacollege.com/GetStarted/GED.aspx?section=GetStarted
> >>
> >> These issues don't exist in IE, FF or Chrome.
> >>
> >> Thanks for any advice.
> >>
> >>
> >> Angela French
> >> Internet Specialist
> >> State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
> >> 360-704-4316
> >> <EMAIL REMOVED> <javascript:;> <javascript:;>
> >> http://www.checkoutacollege.com/
> >>
> >> > >> > >> > >>
> > > > > > > >
>
>
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