Re: Proposal to change documentation on tabindex to strongly discourage values greater 0 from Marco Zehe on 2014-10-17 (public-html@w3.org from October 2014)

From: Marco Zehe <mzehe@mozilla.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 10:23:39 +0200
To: Adrian Roselli <Roselli@algonquinstudios.com>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
CC: W3C WAI Protocols & Formats <public-pfwg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <5440D20B.7090803@mozilla.com>

Hi!

On 16.10.2014 23:22, Adrian Roselli wrote:
> 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.
>
I'd be fine to rephrase my proposal in that matter. And I also agree
with Rich and others that there needs to be a better solution for this
whole focus controlling issue, which ultimately replaces tabindex
alltogether.

Marco

Received on Friday, 17 October 2014 08:24:14 UTC