RE: SC 2.4.6 (Focus order) and (reverse) tab order

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
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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
>
>
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Received on Monday, 19 February 2007 22:58:22 UTC