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Re: css flex and accessibility

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Jun 24, 2020 7:45AM

On 24/06/2020 14:30, Sandy Feldman wrote:
> Léonie, this is really useful! Thanks very much.
>
> Here's my takeaway - flex is ok for everything except for reordering
> content, which is going to mess with the tab order. Browser can fix
> that, but they haven't.

And there's an argument that browsers shouldn't fix this
indiscriminately, as there are certainly cases where an author may have
a particular reading/focus order in mind, while also wanting to define a
different visual presentation. In those cases, browsers just naively
applying heuristics to "fix" reading/focus order would go against these
authors' efforts (with no current way for them to explicitly opt out of
this / signal to the browser "no, I know what I'm doing")

P
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