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Re: Tab Order and Focus Question

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From: Jim Homme
Date: Mar 15, 2019 2:51PM

Hi,
I was asking if the visual indicator for focus is the same when focus is not on interactive elements.



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Jim Homme
Digital Accessibility
Bender Consulting Services
412-787-8567
https://www.benderconsult.com/our%20services/hightest-accessible-technology-solutions

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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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Jim Homme
Digital Accessibility
Bender Consulting Services
412-787-8567
https://www.benderconsult.com/our%20services/hightest-accessible-technology-
solutions