Re: Proposal to change documentation on tabindex to strongly discourage values greater 0

Chaals,

This certainly sounds like a possible solution to me - so long as we 
could scope things at multiple levels in the page. For example a fancy 
table widget with a user-customizable tab sequence feature, which also 
includes a sub-component in the table which again requires use of tab 
sequencing for some reason.

Being able to optimize a task for a user can be really important. We 
have had customers judge software on the number of keypresses to 
complete a specific task.

Regards,
James



On 10/17/2014 4:27 PM, chaals@yandex-team.ru wrote:
> 17.10.2014, 20:06, "White, Jason J" <jjwhite@ets.org>:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: chaals@yandex-team.ru [mailto:chaals@yandex-team.ru]
>>> A use case is to build a component that is used in various pages, in
>>> different locations, and locally assign tabindex within it, but not have
>>> that tabindex override the order of tabbing around the rest of the page.
>>>
>>> So the requirement *might* be something like being able to scope a set
>>> of tabindex attributes, such that they only apply within the scope.
>> One solution might be a boolean attribute that confines the effect of tabindex attributes of descendant elements to that subtree, and ignores all values of tabindex occurring outside the subtree.
> I haven't taken the time to write up a use case in more detail. But at Yandex we build a massive amount of web content (hundreds of millions of views per day) in something like the way I described.
>
> My initial off-the-cuff thinking was some attribute that would scope the tabindex, analagous to the "itemscope" attribute in microdata. Which might be the same as your idea. But perhaps I need to think harder. In the meantime I'll go back to some of the teams who produce these things at Yandex - they might have futher ideas.
>
> cheers
>
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