Techniques for 2.4.7 (controversial)

Hello everyone,

As per my action item, I reviewed the techniques for 2.4.7 (When a delivery
unit is navigated sequentially, elements receive focus in an order that
follows relationships and sequences in the content).

I found that I couldn't find any good examples of using tabindex. In my
experience, tabindex is often used to create taborders that do *not* follow
relationships and sequences in the content. The only legitimate use I could
think of is the redundant specification of the taborder that follows the
relationships and sequences in the content. But in that case, simply putting
the interactive elements in the correct order already creates a logical tab
order and doesn't need tabindex.

For this reason, I have created an additional general technique to place
interactive elements in an order that follows sequences and relationships in
the content and removed the existing HTML techniques that had to do with
tabindex. I have added a Failure due to using tabindex to create a tab order
that does not follow relationships and structures in the content.

Before I put any more effort in this, I would like to hear what the rest of
you think of this development. Do you like the direction I'm going in?

Yvette Hoitink
Heritas, Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands
E-mail: y.p.hoitink@heritas.nl
WWW: http://www.heritas.nl

Received on Monday, 13 February 2006 11:47:47 UTC