Re: Firefox and flex box tab order

Hi Jonathan,

On 7 Jul 2015, at 20:09, Jonathan Avila wrote:

> Eric, as a follow-up to the tab order discussion today regarding the 
> how to meet guide and the flexible box model - please consider that 
> Firefox's treatment of the focus order is actually a bug.  Thus, 
> please consider how FF should treat the focus order and how it works 
> in other browsers.

thanks for pointing me to the resource. And while I see the reasoning, 
it might be useful to have a mechanism to change the tab order when the 
visual order is changed, for example in the low vision / mobile context.

I will make sure that the tab order is proper once we leave mockup state 
and have a more stable HTML.

Best,
Eric

>
> [3] Firefox currently incorrectly changes the tab order of elements. 
> See bug 812687<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=812687>
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/order
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Jonathan
>
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Received on Tuesday, 7 July 2015 19:43:47 UTC