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

That is what I meant.   Onblur changing focus fails WCAG.  So it is not
necessary to create another failure for that.


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: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 3:35 AM
> To: WCAG
> Subject: 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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