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Re: Accessibility of responsive, repositioned sidebars?

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Oct 26, 2016 6:54AM

> Bummer. Nobody has an opinion, or was I just not clear in my explanation of the issue?

CSS Flexible box has the ability to allow programmatic ordering that does not match the DOM order. There is some disagreement on whether it should or not. But this would likely help you solve the issue if people can agree. Browsers implement it differently now.

https://www.w3.org/TR/css-flexbox-1/

Right now since the DOM order is it -- you would have to change the DOM itself to control the order in some situations like you discuss. I'd think that people have been flexible in interpreting 1.3.2 meaningful sequence to allow for the visual order to be different as long as it is still meaningful.

Jonathan

Jonathan Avila
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