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Re: Home button on left, clickable tabindex=-1 logo on the right

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From: Karl Brown
Date: Apr 26, 2017 4:05AM

Thanks, everyone. I've taken everything on board.

It got a little more complicated yesterday as on some pages they have a
different navigation structure where the "home" icon goes to a different
location than the logo, so I'm advising that the logo still needs to be
focusable where those situations arise (i.e., home icon goes to page B,
brand logo goes to page A). If they're both going to the same location
(page A) it's less of an issue.

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Birkir R. Gunnarsson <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Jon
> You are right there, I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek.
> But in a practical environment using positive tab indecies ends up
> being a problem in, I would say, over 9 out of 10 cases.
> Most webpages are huge, and the idea of getting the user directly to
> the form quickly breaks down when you forget to assign a positive
> tabindex to one of the form fields, or you dynamically add one form
> field, (or update the page to add a field) and forget to reorder them.
> I can't find the quote, but someone said using positive tab index
> values is like adopting a pet crocodile, it starts out cute but grows
> fast and ends up ruining your bathtub and eating your children.
>
>
>
>
> On 4/25/17, Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> >> I always call a fail on use of positive tabindex values, because those
> >> will break the focus order of the page.
> >
> > It depends on the situation. If you have a page with two links and two
> > input fields -- for example, a simple log in page -- there is no harm in
> > using a positive tabindex to order the interactive elements. In general
> use
> > of a positive tabindex is a red flag for issues -- but it doesn't have
> to be
> > an automatic failure as it's possible to pass using that technique.
> >
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