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Re: Meaningful Sequences for "Back" and "Continue" on Wizards

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Dec 8, 2014 9:11AM

> In my opinion this seems off, but most of the people that I talk to don't see this as a big issue since the business wants the user to see the "Continue" button as the default button.

In my opinion these situations can be confusing but sometimes helpful. As long as they are consistent they wouldn't appear to be accessibility violations. A common example of reading order that doesn't match the visual order is Wikipedia -- on that site the main content is first in the reading order despite content to the left and above it. One additional group that this is confusing for is people with low vision who may use text-to-speech but can see the page.

Jonathan