- From: Gregg Vanderheiden <gv@trace.wisc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:58:09 -0600
- To: "'Christophe Strobbe'" <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>, "'WCAG'" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
I believe the onblur event would fail WCAG. When you fix that failure, the problem disappears - no? If so we don't need another failure. Gregg -- ------------------------------ Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D. > -----Original Message----- > From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org > [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Christophe Strobbe > Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 9:16 AM > To: WCAG > Subject: SC 2.4.6 (Focus order) and (reverse) tab order > > > Hi, > > During a review of test cases in the BenToWeb test suite for > WCAG 2.0, the following occurred to me: > SC 2.4.6 requires that "When a Web unit or authored component > is navigated sequentially, components receive focus in an > order that follows relationships and sequences in the > content." However, there are many types of content that can > be tabbed through both in "normal" > order (usually top to bottom, just pressing the TAB key) and > in reverse order (pressing SHIFT + TAB). It is possible for > scripts to manipulate the focus in such a way that certain > items are skipped in normal tabbing order but not in reverse > tabbing order. This would fail the intent of SC 2.4.6 but > this is not made explicit anywhere. > > An example of this behaviour can be seen at > <http://www.bentoweb.org/ts/XHTML1_TestSuite2/testfiles/sc3.2. > 5_l3_027.html>. > When tabbing through this file, focus goes from the first to > the third link (the second links is skipped because an > 'onblur' event on the first link changes focus to the third > link). When tabbing in reverse order, however, you get all the links. > > Best regards, > > Christophe > > > -- > Christophe Strobbe > K.U.Leuven - Departement of Electrical Engineering - Research > Group on Document Architectures Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 - > 3001 Leuven-Heverlee - BELGIUM > tel: +32 16 32 85 51 > http://www.docarch.be/ > > > Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm > > >
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