RE: Proposal to change documentation on tabindex to strongly discourage values greater 0 from Adrian Roselli on 2014-10-16 (public-html@w3.org from October 2014)

From: Adrian Roselli <Roselli@algonquinstudios.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 21:22:08 +0000
To: Marco Zehe <mzehe@mozilla.com>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
CC: W3C WAI Protocols & Formats <public-pfwg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <2e60b8c6dc01441cb709ee79bb05ea3f@BLUPR01MB258.prod.exchangelabs.com>

> From: Marco Zehe [mailto:mzehe@mozilla.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2014 9:09 AM
[...]
> Proposed changes:
> 1. Include explicit advice to not use tabIndex with a value greater
> than 0 in the next version of the documentation.

This I can support.

> 2. Change the W3C validator to spit out an error on tabIndex values
> other than 0 and -1.

Warning, sure, but unless we deprecate values I don't think an error is warranted. The change above suggests language, not deprecation.

Received on Thursday, 16 October 2014 21:22:37 UTC