Okay, based on Gab's and Andy's input, I started a WIKI: http://wiki.apache.org/myfaces/CustomTabOrder
It is *very* primitive at the moment, but I wanted it to spark a discussion. If you have another concrete option, just add it to the wiki. I guess we can discuss the options in this thread for now. -Andrew On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Andrew Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andy, > > I will pause development, and write up a WIKI. The big problem with tab > indexes is tables or extra components that people don't want to tab to > (skipping over an advertisement link for example). Tables tab left to right, > sometimes people want newspaper style tabs - top to bottom then left to right. > > I think that perhaps we can discuss different approaches on a wiki that could > make development easier than having to set a tab index on every component. > I'll start one within the week that has different options, with pros and cons > so that we can have a discussion. > > Thanks, > Andrew > > > > > > On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 7:31 AM, Andy Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > So if I have a log in form, the tab indexes would probably be: > > > > > > user name: 1 > > > password: 2 > > > submit: 3 > > > > > > And then everything else would not have one. This way all the > > > "template" components would be tabbed, just not first. > > > > In this particular use case it sounds like you actually like the > > natural tab order of the form (user name, password, submit), but want > > to make life easier for the end user by placing the focus in the user > > name field when the page is loaded. I think that, rather than mucking > > with tab indicies, a better solution to this problem would be to take > > advantage of tr:document's initialFocusId attribute. IIRC > > initialFocusId is not currently honored in the default accessibility > > mode, which makes this attribute somewhat less useful, but I think we > > should revisit this decision - ie. I think that we should start > > honoring initialFocusId in the default accessibility mode. > > > > Andy > > > >
