https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29199

Ruben <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #5 from Ruben <[email protected]> ---
I would like to add that for most users (not using screen readers or other
accessibility tools), the usefulness and impact of good tab indexing greatly
depends on the input context. When are the users more likely to be in a typing
modus - and have one or two hands on the keyboard?

I would claim that after searching for something, you are more probable to be
in that context, then you are while browsing pages. 

If you are on the search result page, you most definite have just typed in
something. You will also very likely want to access one of the first links in
the search result (rather than make a new search). 

As of now, the tab indexing varies between browsers - and they do a pretty bad
job at guessing correctly. At a quick glance, I actually didn't see any
tabindexes in the HTML.

On a search result page, you will have to have good arguments for not letting
the result set have high index priority. Google understands this and does it
very well as they even remove the search button (as most users know you can
press enter directly in the search input field.

On the search result page you'll have the hands on the keyboard, and not being
able to tab down to the first result(s) is a major usability issue for
MediaWiki and Wikipedia.

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