[whatwg] Drop tabindex=""

Colin Lieberman colin at fontshop.com
Wed Mar 21 08:18:21 PDT 2007


Gervase Markham wrote:
> Before doing that, it might make sense to consult the accessibility 
> teams of the UA vendors. In Mozilla's case, that's Aaron Leventhal. I 
> believe that there have been recent changes to this property to better 
> allow keyboard accessibility of DHTML widgets:
> http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Key-navigable_custom_DHTML_widgets
>
> Gerv
>

Certainly that's reasonable. Yes, you are absolutely right insofar as FF 
goes, although I'm not 100% convinced that authors should be left in the 
driver's seat; this may be something best left 100% in the hands of UA.

Colin



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