Focus on non-interactive elements

Hello

If focus goes to elements which are not actionable and don't have a semantic role where you would expect focus to go to them (like tabpanels), so a <div> with text in for example, is this always a focus order fail? In my opinion, it is confusing to have non-interactive controls in tab order and increases the effort to navigate. For example:

  1.  A set of pagination links where the current page becomes ordinary text but they leave a tabindex=0 on it
  2.  A set of items in a list, each item is essentially a 'card' with a fair amount of content in it, and focus goes to each <li>

There is nothing in the SC that explicitly mentions non-interactive content being added to tab order as a failure, so I wanted to check in case there is an argument that this is fine in some cases?

Thanks

Sarah

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