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Re: Tab navigation for non-interactive content?

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Oct 28, 2016 7:57AM

> Coincidentally, I've just recently pushed a change to the W3C HTML5.2 editor's draft specifically warning that authors SHOULD NOT add tabindex values greater or equal to zero to non-interactive elements.

Sam Joehl and I had a twitter conversation with Steve that doesn't seemed to be listed in the thread where we list some situations where it is important. For example, for terms of service or scrolling areas. If the scrolling area is not keyboard focusable or there is not keyboard focusable content in it a keyboard only user or a user of speech recognition will not be able to access that content outside the scrollable area.

There also may be some other readonly type content that isn't in a readonly field like redemption or promotion codes or other things that may need to be copied via the keyboard where the user may not have access to caret browsing, etc.

Jonathan

Jonathan Avila
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