Re: ISSUE: ARIA 5/14 draft, Section 2.3, focus on 'last' active descendant needs clarification

I think it means the last item the user has focus in that widget.  This allows the user to stay oriented.  For example if the second item of a tree group had focus when the user tabed out of the tree, that is the same tree item that has focus when the tree gets focus again.

Jon
 

---- Original message ----
>Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 19:54:12 -0700
>From: James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>  
>Subject: ISSUE: ARIA 5/14 draft, Section 2.3, focus on 'last' active descendant needs clarification  
>To: W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
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>ISSUE: ARIA 5/14 draft, Section 2.3, focus on 'last' active descendant  
>needs clarification
>
>http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria/#managingfocus
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>In the third paragraph of Section 2.3, there is a sentence that says,  
>"When the container is navigated to with the Tab key, focus goes  
>directly to the last active descendant."
>
>Will someone explain why it should be the last active descendant,  
>instead of the first? The explanation should be added to the draft?
>
>
>
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