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Re: Accessibility of responsive, repositioned sidebars?

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Oct 31, 2016 11:34AM

> If I tab past the last menu item in the main horizontal navigation at the top of the page, I, personally, would expect the next tab stop to be the first link in the main content area (left column), not the first link in the secondary navigation menu (right column). This would be the case whether that secondary navigation was made to appear there using float:right with CSS or by using the order property in the flexbox model.

From what I understand if the order property is used in Firefox the tab order will actually change to match the visual order and not the source order.

> Jonathan, I'm interpreting what you've said as falling on the "It's probably not that big a deal either way" side of things in the scenario described above. That sound right?

Right, as long as the sequence is still meaningful there would appear to be allowances for some deviation from the visual order.

Jonathan

Jonathan Avila
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