On 4/03/2007, at 12:43 AM, David Dorward wrote:
9.5 Provide keyboard shortcuts to important links (including those
in client-side image maps), form controls, and groups of form
controls.
Well, technically it is a requirement of AAA level WCAG 1.0, but a
lot of experts consider
David Dorward wrote:
I've never heard of it, and a quick Google doesn't help.
Thanks David, that was what I thought the consensus was!
In respect of the WAI I referred to, see: Cynthia at
www.contentquality.com - it's the one which is used when you use the
Firefox developer toolbar and
Sorry to go over old ground here, but I seem to remember that the
general consensus of opinion on the above two was that it was best if
they weren't used? However, if I try to validate using the WIA
validator, my stuff validates, but the validator gives me two warnings:
9.4 Create a
Designer wrote:
Sorry to go over old ground here, but I seem to remember that the
general consensus of opinion on the above two was that it was best if
they weren't used? However, if I try to validate using the WIA
validator,
I've never heard of it, and a quick Google doesn't help.
my
In an endeavor to 'be good', I've been putting tabindex on links just
lately. Certainly the WAI validator gives me a warning if I don't.
However, it looks to me as though 'modern' browsers tab through the
links even without the tabindex (certainly Firefox, Opera and even IE6),
so what's the
Designer wrote:
In an endeavor to 'be good', I've been putting tabindex on links just
lately. Certainly the WAI validator gives me a warning if I don't.
Just ignore such useless warnings, tabindex can do more harm than good
if used without a lot of care and it's mostly useless because there
Designer wrote:
In an endeavor to 'be good', I've been putting tabindex on links just
lately. Certainly the WAI validator gives me a warning if I don't.
However, it looks to me as though 'modern' browsers tab through the
links even without the tabindex (certainly Firefox, Opera and even
Designer wrote:
In an endeavor to 'be good', I've been putting tabindex on links just
lately. Certainly the WAI validator gives me a warning if I don't.
Aeh...which validator would that be? It sound more to me like your
validator is lying.
However, it looks to me as though 'modern'
Thank you Gentlemen,
I'll strip the bloomin' things out again then!
The validator I was using (Patrick) is the one which appears in the FF
web developer toolbar ('validate WIA) and it's items 9.4 and 9.5 which
warn me that:
[
/Rule: 9.4.1 - All Anchor, AREA, BUTTON, INPUT, OBJECT, SELECT
It's not difficult to test... just try navigating your site/filling
out your form and see what happens. For a site that really needs to
set the tabindex, check out the new Australian white pages redesign...
http://www.whitepages.com.au - try searching for a phone number using
only the keyboard.
Dear all,
I have a question: Doesn't my web site pages here http://www.webnauts.net have a logical
navigation structure,thereforeI do need to use the "Tabindex"
tags?I ask, because someone advised me against the use of tab indexing -
using it only if the natural ordering is misleading.
I think that if the default tab order of the page is logical you don't
need to use tabindex.
with regards
Steven Faulkner
Web Accessibility Consultant
National Information Library Service (NILS)
454 Glenferrie Road
Kooyong Victoria 3144
Phone: (613) 9864 9281
Fax: (613) 9864 9210
Email: [EMAIL
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