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Re: Misuse of TabIndex 0

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Nov 4, 2015 9:59AM

While making non-interactive elements navigable is certainly an issue,
you also should realize that removing the elements from the tab flow
entirely may result in other issues. When navigating through a form,
important instructions and cues between form controls will often be
skipped over. Lengthy questions that are associated as legends for an
answer set are very burdensome to have read for EVERY control in the
fieldset.

These are problems for which there are not good solutions - and
perhaps there are instances where tabindex=0 on these elements is less
of an end user issue than the alternative.

Jared