Re: Javascript onClick attribute and accessibility

The use of onclick on a non-focusable element to provide an additional 
way to achieve the same result as following the proper link later on 
seems fine to me. I'd caution that some assistive tech (from memory, not 
tested recently) will helpfully still focus the element if it has an 
onclick handler (as an error-correction mechanism against badly coded 
pages), but hopefully the explicit use of tabindex=-1 should prevent 
that. I'd test it in a variety of browser/AT combos to be absolutely 
sure, but in principle I'd say this is fine in this particular case.

P
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Received on Thursday, 19 October 2017 17:16:22 UTC