Re: focus order with tabindex - is it aloud?

Zach, thanks for the question.

Authors may use the tabindex attribute to establish the focus order, but need to do so carefully so as to avoid inadvertantly creating a tab order that does not preserve the meaning and operation of the page.

Failure F44 (http://www.w3.org/TR/2016/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20160317/F44) speaks to this issue but does not forbid the use of tab index; it specifies that the tab order needs to follow the relationships in the content.

If you have a suggestion for an example of the proper use of tabindex in a form we would be happy to review it for inclusion as an additional example in Understanding 2.4.3.

Thanks,
AWK