- From: Joe Clark <joeclark@joeclark.org>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 22:29:03 +0000 (UTC)
- To: WAI-GL <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
> In IE (and in the future, Mozilla)
Something's upcoming in Moz?
> tabindex can be used to
> programmatically set focus to an element that does not receive focus by
> default (for example, <div> or <span>).
<div> and <span> cannot receive tabindex.
<http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/forms.html#adef-tabindex>
The following elements support the [751]tabindex attribute: [752]A,
[753]AREA, [754]BUTTON, [755]INPUT, [756]OBJECT, [757]SELECT, and
[758]TEXTAREA.
> This can be very powerful for
> creating more accessible keyboard navigation that does work with the
> screen readers (in IE on Windows). While that isn't the intent in this
> technique
then it does not seem suitable for this technique.
> I did want to mention the benefits of tabindex when used
> properly with JavaScript.
Let's write another technique for that.
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Received on Tuesday, 27 July 2004 18:29:10 UTC