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From: Seth Rothberg
Date: Fri, Dec 17 2004 5:45PM
Subject: More on tabs
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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.
Thanks,
Seth
From: Bob Easton
Date: Sat, Dec 18 2004 3:24PM
Subject: Re: More on tabs
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sethmr wrote:
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> 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
From: Andrew Arch
Date: Sun, Dec 19 2004 3:28AM
Subject: Re: More on tabs
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Hi Seth,
Tabbing after following a link SHOULD take you to the next link after the
anchor, however there are some idiosyncrasies with tabbing in IE. A good
article on this problem (and workarounds) has been written by Jim Thatcher -
http://www.jimthatcher.com/skipnav.htm
Andrew
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Subject: [WebAIM] More on tabs
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.
Thanks,
Seth
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