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Re: Tab Order and Focus Question

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From: mhysnm1964@gmail.com
Date: Mar 13, 2019 1:52AM


Jim,

Anything in the web or any program can receive focus. Tabindex is the
attribute which permits the keyboard focus to land on an element. If the
element should receive focus is a different story.

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Subject: [WebAIM] Tab Order and Focus Question

Hi,
The Understanding 4.1.2 page at
https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/name-role-value talks about
controls receiving focus. Since I'm a screen reader user, this may be a
sighted question. It is possible to give tab order to items that are not
controls. My question is: does that mean that these items receive focus if
they are in the tab order?

Thanks.

Jim



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