Re: Accessibility of CSS overflow

"Tom Gilder" <w3c@tom.me.uk>
> For instance, to scroll purely using the keyboard in IE6/win there has
> to be an element you can tab to (such as a link) within the scrollable
area.
> Otherwise keyboard-only users won't be able to access the content out of
view,
> as far as I an see.

I'd suggest this was an issue with IE6 (ie a UAAG issue - allow user
access to "widgets"), a simple workaround as you say would be to add a
tabindex to the overflow:scrolled area, this would allow keyboard use, to
overcome the validity issue you can use a scripting solution to set the
tabindex and overflow properties or you could use a non W3 version of HTML
to maintain the validity of the document.

Jim.

Received on Thursday, 25 July 2002 19:49:00 UTC