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Re: Must elements with onclick handlers be focusable?

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Jul 22, 2014 4:21AM

On 22/07/2014 10:59, Alastair Campbell wrote:
> I've been using a lot of tools recently, for obvious reasons[1], and quite
> a few seem to over-report this issue:
> "Elements with onclick handlers must be focusable"
[...]
> Do other people consider this a false positive?

It depends on the exact structures used. In general, it seems a very
facile simplification to generalise "if there's onclick it must be
focusable" ... it's not something that can be easily machine-tested, so
tools shouldn't pretend that they can.

P
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