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

Hi Gregg,

At 23:58 19/02/2007, Gregg Vanderheiden wrote:
>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.

Using the onblur event wouldn't necessarily fail WCAG, it depends on what
that event triggers. In this case, it triggers something that causes a
failure. (The failure is somewhat similar to F44 but uses JavaScript
instead of tabindex.)
I don't know if the example I gave is a *common* failure, but adding
the note suggested by David to the intent of SC 2.4.6 would at least
address the issue.

Best regards,

Christophe



>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


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Received on Tuesday, 20 February 2007 09:34:58 UTC