- From: Joe Clark <joeclark@joeclark.org>
- Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 22:28:58 +0000 (UTC)
- To: WAI-GL <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
> Although I explained this at the Face to Face meeting, there is a
> fundamental accessibility problem with HTML. Only form and anchor elements
> can receive focus.
I know it's a problem.
> HTML makes it impossible for them to make these rich applications
> accessible.
Things will be somewhat different for XHTML due to the different
definitions of tabindex.
Cf. <http://www.juicystudio.com/article/ie-keyboard-navigation.php#comment1>
But only somewhat.
I am merely saying that the tabindex spec, which has lots of deficiencies,
should not have been busted so blithely. Essentially, the argument is that
two wrongs make a right.
If people are willing to put in all this effort to fix one problem
(arguably a small one), then why aren't you fixing all the other problems?
If you're making a new DTD for tabindex, why aren't you including embed in
it, or multiple instances of form labels? Why, in short, is your fix so
important?
Again, Cf. <http://blog.fawny.org/2005/08/22/tabindex/>.
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Received on Thursday, 25 August 2005 22:29:15 UTC