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Re: Tried to make it accessible; now it doesn't look good

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From: JP Jamous
Date: Oct 13, 2018 5:15PM

Glen,

I agree with all that you said except to tabindex="-1". JAWS in IE11 will set focus on it. Be careful of that one. I have witnessed many developers in my company that use it and it created lots of problems. They blamed it on JAWS, but once the -1 index was removed JAWS behaved as expected.

You are correct that keyboard only users won't be able to set focus on it, but not JAWS users.

I would prefer using disabled="disabled". It still works better than anything else I have witnessed.



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