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Re: [External Sender]What are the semantics in html?

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Jul 9, 2020 6:18PM

On 09/07/2020 13:26, Brian Lovely via WebAIM-Forum wrote:
> Part of the semantics of an element being in the tab order is that that
> element is actionable, so adding a non-actionable element to the tab order
> with tabindex="0" is a semantic failure.

Seems a bit of a stretch. It's a failure of focus order/behaviour, not
of semantics, I'd say... (how it behaves vs what it conveys)

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