Accessibility - "Logical tab order...."

External Since: Jun 28, 2003 Posts: 171

Doing some accessibility checking on one of my sites, I'm down to this
warning for my main nav setup:

[WCAG-AAA/Low] Create keyboard shortcuts and/or a logical tab order between
controls.

The issue, to me, is there's no reliable way to implement accesskeys, so I
don't do it. And as far as tab order, I don't use tabindex because tabbing
works just fine when using the browser default.

Am I off base here? Does anyone else have any suggestions?

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External Since: Jun 29, 2003 Posts: 19

On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 22:47:34 -0400, "EightNineThree"
<eightninethree.RemoveThis@REMOVEeightninethree.com> wrote:

>Doing some accessibility checking on one of my sites, I'm down to this
>warning for my main nav setup:
>
>[WCAG-AAA/Low] Create keyboard shortcuts and/or a logical tab order between
>controls.
>
>The issue, to me, is there's no reliable way to implement accesskeys, so I
>don't do it. And as far as tab order, I don't use tabindex because tabbing
>works just fine when using the browser default.
>
>Am I off base here? Does anyone else have any suggestions?

Unless you specify a tab order you may encounter issues with some
screen readers/specialty browsers. Not all of them will tab you
through a form or link list (e.g. your menu) in a logical sequence.

Use tab order and this issue should go away.

Adrian Appleyard
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