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Bug 6753 - Integrate HTML 5 tabindex recommendations into the spec
Summary: Integrate HTML 5 tabindex recommendations into the spec
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: ARIA
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Core AAM (show other bugs)
Version: 1.0
Hardware: All All
: P1 normal
Target Milestone: Last Call
Assignee: David Bolter
QA Contact: ARIA UA Implementors
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Keywords:
: 6878 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: 6877
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Reported: 2009-04-02 16:31 UTC by David Bolter
Modified: 2009-06-09 18:50 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description David Bolter 2009-04-02 16:31:41 UTC 
This action item came out of the March 20 UAI TF meeting.
Comment 1 David Bolter 2009-04-02 17:35:26 UTC 
Where is the latest html 5 tabindex recommendation?
Comment 3 David Bolter 2009-05-08 17:38:26 UTC 
*** Bug 6878 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 David Bolter 2009-05-08 17:42:56 UTC 
Our spec: http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria-implementation/#keyboard-focus_tabindex

Additional HTML5 description: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/editing.html (see
6.5.1
Sequential focus navigation)

(Aside: We need to make sure we don't confuse this with the guidelines for web
devs:
http://wiki.codetalks.org/wiki/index.php/Docs/Keyboard_navigable_JS_widgets)
Comment 5 David Bolter 2009-05-28 17:52:38 UTC 
Wondering about qualifiers like "unless platform conventions dictate otherwise" found in the html5 draft.
Comment 6 Andi Snow-Weaver 2009-06-08 21:21:38 UTC 
Done in June 8, 2009, editor's draft. 

May still need to resolve what is meant by platform conventions.
Comment 7 Simon Pieters 2009-06-09 12:40:16 UTC 
(In reply to comment #6)
> May still need to resolve what is meant by platform conventions.

In Mac OS X, by default, buttons are not in the focusable. There's an OS-level pref to make them focusable, though. The idea is that buttons in Web pages would honor the pref.
Comment 8 David Bolter 2009-06-09 18:50:26 UTC 
(In reply to comment #7)
> (In reply to comment #6)
> > May still need to resolve what is meant by platform conventions.
> 
> In Mac OS X, by default, buttons are not in the focusable. There's an OS-level
> pref to make them focusable, though. The idea is that buttons in Web pages
> would honor the pref.
> 

Right. [ctrl]+[fn]+F7 (or you can find radio buttons for this setting in prefs)