RE: Tabindex on instructions

Yes, portions of SSA site were unavailable for scheduled maintenance.
It looks to me like everything is up now.

 

I cited SSA as evidence that the technique of having instructional text
in the tab order is used in the real world.  I don't think we can point
to the SSA forms, but mostly only because one has to "click through" two
pages to get to the demonstration.

 

Yes, you are correct that what I wanted to see from your example is a
tabindex on instructional text paragraphs (which should be marked up as
P.  If we use tabindex on headers, I think that should be a different
example.