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Re: Tab order of interactive elements

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Oct 2, 2018 4:58AM

Hi

your only bet is WCAG 2.4.3 - focus order.
It only says that focus order has to be logical, best practice if it
matches the visual order of the elements on the page.

In this scenario I have filed a best practice/keyboard usability
recommendation to move the CTA (the submit button before the secondary
buttons (e.g. forgot password or cancel).
This can be hard to do, people do not want to mess around with
tabindex attributes and the order is often pretty fixed so switching
the underlying source order will require adjustments to global CSS
styles which triggers the whole set of approvals and regression
testing retesting.



On 10/2/18, Isabel Holdsworth < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We have a scenario where there's a question to be answered, then a
> series of 3 or 4 buttons (sitewide preferences and a couple of others
> that have slipped my mind), then the "Next question" button, which is
> effectively the Submit button.
>
> The navigation is consistent throughout the product, but IMHO the
> elements in between the question and its Submit button are misplaced.
>
> Would this fail against any WCAG2 test criterion? I don't think so,
> but I wonder if I'm missing something?
>
> Thanks as always, Isabel
> > > > >


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