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From: Robert Fentress
Date: Oct 31, 2016 1:14PM

Thanks for following up, Jonathan.

I hadn't thought to check with Firefox. I just did and see, that it does,
indeed, work as you describe there. I had only checked with Chrome, where,
unfortunately, flexbox-assigned order doesn't appear to have any effect on
tab order. So, it looks like that still won't solve the problem (?),
unless I am overlooking something. How depressing!

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> > 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
>
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