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Re: More on tabs

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From: Bob Easton
Date: Dec 18, 2004 3:24PM

sethmr wrote:
>
> Sorry to be such a pest, but I am trying to figure things out. This time
> I'm wondering what the correct behavior is for tabbing after a skip
> link (or any link to an anchor on the same page) has been followed. In
> some browsers, tabbing after following the link takes you to the next
> link following the named anchor. In other browsers tabbing just takes
> you back to the next link after the skip link, which kind of defeats the
> purpose. And I'm not sure at all what Opera on the Mac is doing.
>
This is EXACTLY the keyboard focus problem that Jim Thatcher wrote about
in his article. It's an IE problem. Read the very end of the article
to find a fix.

http://jimthatcher.com/skipnav.htm
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Bob Easton