- From: Joe Clark <joeclark@joeclark.org>
- Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 20:32:03 -0500 (EST)
- To: WAI-GL <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
> Proposal:
> Tabindex can include any number 0 through 9 and may not exceed 32767. A
> tabindex of 0 should never be used because the 0 is read as a leading 0
> as in 03 or 0340. Therefore a tabindex="0" would be understood as
> tabindex="" where a tabindex="03" would be understood as tabindex="3".
That is not what the spec says. tabindex="0" is explicitly permitted
as a legal value.
<http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/forms.html#adef-tabindex>
2. Those elements that do not support the tabindex
attribute or support it and assign it a value of "0" are navigated
next. These elements are navigated in the order they appear in the
character stream.
The spec also states "User agents should ignore leading zeros."
tabindex="0" does not constitute a leading zero. It isn't leading
anything.
--
Joe Clark | joeclark@joeclark.org
Author, _Building Accessible Websites_
<http://joeclark.org/access/> | <http://joeclark.org/book/>
Received on Monday, 24 March 2003 20:32:38 UTC