[Bug 27076] Change tabIndex spec to only declare 0 and -1 as valid values

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=27076

James Craig <jcraig@apple.com> changed:

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--- Comment #11 from James Craig <jcraig@apple.com> ---
(In reply to Marco Zehe from comment #2)
> As I write above, I don't know of any site which uses tabIndex with a
> positive integer value correctly. On the contrary, all support/advice
> inquiries I get have to do with the fact that it is being misused, primarily
> due to lack of awareness.

It's rare I admit, but I've seen a few examples that would be difficult to
implement without positive tabindex values. The one that comes to mind was
using a generated tabindex on a "Google Maps" section of a non Google page,
interspersing the tabindex of the active map flag in between the tabindex
values in the list of search results. Since the Google maps markup was very
inaccessible, this was the only logical way to skip over the extraneous maps
tiles to jump directly from the search result, to the map, and then back to the
search result.

I support "discouraging" use of position tabindex values w/o a good reason, but
I would stop short of making them invalid.

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