I claim that having a sensible order to start with, and not inserting any tabindex attributes, does indeed meet WCAG requirements for HTML documents, and that you can therefore lighten your HTML and remove a source of possible confusion from the generating code... cheers Chaals Matthew Smith wrote: >> Right - if you have done something very wierd with the link >> presentation so they don't appear in a sensible order it is helpful >> to have a tabindex. Otherwise I would say it is not necessary. In any >> event I sggest it is better to avoid having a wierd ordering in HTML >> since control of positioning is not always reliable. > > > I have to confess that my reason for the use of tabindex is more for > compliance than usability; when I create documents, I do a lot of > testing with Lynx (saves cluttering my screen up with top-heavy user > agents), so I have already made sure that the order in which links > appear is logical. If links needed to come in anything but their > natural order, I would regard my document structure as flawed as would > re-work it.Received on Monday, 5 May 2003 07:18:28 UTC
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