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Bug 10933 - add link types that create hyperlinks to 7.4.2 Focus management
Summary: add link types that create hyperlinks to 7.4.2 Focus management
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: HTML.next
Classification: Unclassified
Component: default (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows NT
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
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Keywords: a11y, a11ytf, a11y_focus
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Reported: 2010-10-01 01:36 UTC by Cynthia Shelly
Modified: 2012-12-12 14:39 UTC (History)
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Description Cynthia Shelly 2010-10-01 01:36:50 UTC 
link types that create hyperlinks get focus and should be listed in the focus mangement section.  These include:
4.12.4.2 Link type "archives"
4.12.4.3 Link type "author"
4.12.4.4 Link type "bookmark"
4.12.4.5 Link type "external"
4.12.4.6 Link type "help"
4.12.4.8 Link type "license"
4.12.4.13 Link type "search"
4.12.4.15 Link type "sidebar"
4.12.4.16 Link type "tag"


4.17 Hierarchical link types4.12.4.17.1 Link type "index"
4.12.4.17.2 Link type "up"

4.12.4.18 Sequential link types4.12.4.18.1 Link type "first"
4.12.4.18.2 Link type "last"
4.12.4.18.3 Link type "next"
4.12.4.18.4 Link type "prev"
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-10-11 22:51:23 UTC 
All links can be focused if the platform focuses links; why would specific link types be listed here? I don't understand what problems is being resolved here. Can you describe a situation where interoperability would be harmed if we don't have this requirement?
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-10-12 10:41:06 UTC 
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Status: Did Not Understand Request
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: see comment 1
Comment 3 Michael Cooper 2010-10-26 15:14:21 UTC 
Michael to provide additional info; preliminary input to bug triage subteam was Bug and pushback is related to specific link types, but the issue is that any element that forms a "hyperlink" see http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/links.html#introduction-2) needs to be focusable. So the focus management section, instead of saying "a and area are focusable" should say "link, a, and area are focusable when they create a hyperlink as described in 4.12.4 Link types http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/links.html#linkTypes". This is probably a TF priority but hopefully can be addressed just with the bug triage subteam and Cynthia.