[WSG] take object out of tab order

[Martin Heiden]

Hi!

  Is there a way to take an object (flash) out of tab order?

  The problem:

  Our site uses flash for a small animation. There isn't any
  link/button inside the flash, just graphics. At least in Firefox on
  PC (IE does this job well) the focus gets lost in the flash while
  tabbing through the page.

  Does anyone know a way to prevent the flash getting focus?
  Or to tell the flash to give focus back to the rest of the page?

  Is it a bug or a feature? I couldn't find any bug report at
  mozilla.org.

Martin.

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Re: [WSG] take object out of tab order

[Kvnmcwebn]

sorry for my ignorance what is the tab order?
-Kevin

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Re[2]: [WSG] take object out of tab order

[Martin Heiden]

Kevin,

Am Freitag, 8. April 2005 um 01:32:08 haben Sie geschrieben:

K sorry for my ignorance what is the tab order?

I'm not sure if it is your ignorance or my insuficient knowledge of
the english language ;-)

What I mean is:

You can step through the links/objects/form elments on a HTML page by
pressing the TAB-key. On our pages this works well until a flash
object gets the focus. When this happens you can press the TAB-key as
often as you like, nothing happens.

There is an attribute tabindex to control the order of giving focus to
certain elements when pressing the TAB-key. It accepts values 0, but
it seems impossible to take an element out of the normal order. (which
is the order of the character stream).

See http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/forms.html#h-17.11.1 for
more details.

Martin.


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Re: [WSG] take object out of tab order

[Lea de Groot]

On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 00:32:08 +0100, Kvnmcwebn wrote:
 sorry for my ignorance what is the tab order?

The order in which the fields are traversed in a page when the tab key 
is hit repeatedly.

HIH!
Lea
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Re: [WSG] take object out of tab order

[diona kidd]

What happens if the tabindex is specified as null? Is it still included
in the stack?



On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 23:15 +1000, Lea de Groot wrote:
 On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 00:32:08 +0100, Kvnmcwebn wrote:
  sorry for my ignorance what is the tab order?
 
 The order in which the fields are traversed in a page when the tab key 
 is hit repeatedly.
 
 HIH!
 Lea
 ~ ANNC: looking for a permanent position in Brisbane - got anything? :)

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Re[2]: [WSG] take object out of tab order

[Martin Heiden]

Diona,

Am Freitag, 8. April 2005 um 15:24:36 haben Sie geschrieben:

dk What happens if the tabindex is specified as null? Is it still included
dk in the stack?

Yes, it is. It's the same as don't specify a tabindex at all.

I found out that it is a feature and that there is a workaround in
flash:

http://www.sonokids.com/tabnew.html

Searching for flash tabbing did the trick...

Martin.

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Re: [WSG] take object out of tab order

[Kvnmcwebn]

I think you need to specify the tabindex inside the flash movie, but im not
sure how to do it properly.

I found this at flash kit.

_root.main.all_pages.contact.form.tNom.tabIndex = 0;

so tabindex is just an actionscript property.

-Kevin

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