> 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
