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Bug 29605 - Use control's attribute to drive keyboard focus when radio button is between two combo boxes or edit fields
Summary: Use control's attribute to drive keyboard focus when radio button is between ...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: HTML.next
Classification: Unclassified
Component: default (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC All
: P2 minor
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Assignee: This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
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Reported: 2016-05-02 19:01 UTC by Devarshi Pant
Modified: 2016-05-05 14:50 UTC (History)
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Description Devarshi Pant 2016-05-02 19:01:20 UTC
Even though radio buttons allow selections using arrow up/down, in pages with form controls that host radio button controls between edit fields or combo boxes, keyboard navigation is murky and ill advised. User must tab to the first radio control to start navigating which becomes impossible when there are combo boxes (or edit fields) before and after the radio button control.
Suggested Use - <select...nextbind="true"</select> that binds the combo box control with the subsequent radio button control such that the next tabstop from combo box lands in the radio control. Furthermore, it informs assistive technologies of an impending radio list and allow sighted keyboard only users to tab into the radio control.
Comment 1 Charles McCathieNevile 2016-05-05 14:50:01 UTC
It is possible to tab from a text input field or combo box to any subsequent form control.