Re: role=presentation must not be applied to focusable elements

thats really interesting to know Ian, but do you have any useful input
on the issue at hand?

regards
stevef

On 25 December 2010 18:56, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Dec 2010, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
>>
>> HTML5 doesn't actually define the effect of being focusable. Is that
>> list the suggested list of things that should get focus when
>> mouse-clicked, or tapped on a touch device? Is it the set of things that
>> gets focus when you call their focus() method? Are these two sets
>> allowed to be different?
>
> This is all defined in the spec (yes, yes, yes, and yes, respectively).
>
> The one thing that isn't defined is the most important part of focusing:
> that when something is focused, key events go there. However, this is just
> because the spec doesn't define key events in the first place.
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