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Re: Partial Tabindex Behavior

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Jul 19, 2014 2:26PM

On 19/07/2014 19:51, Birkir R. Gunnarsson wrote:
> Whenever you see positive tabindex being used, I would recommend
> calling that out as a potential user issue and recommend that it be
> avoided at all cost.

Tiny sidenote that, from my very cursory testing in iOS/Safari at least,
mobile/tablet browsers ignore tabindex > 0 when you navigate with AT
and/or keyboard...so if tabindex is used to try and force a certain
sensible order due to underlying HTML / source order of focusable
elements being wrong, then note that on these platforms that won't have
the desired effect and the wrong tab cycle will still be there for users.

P
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