Moreover, especially on long forms, even if you could rely on tabindex, you'd start pulling your hairs out having to add tabindices to every single form element (as otherwise the browser will still cycle through the ones with a tabindex, no matter how high/low you set it, before tabbing through the non-tabindexed elements).
So overall, I still don't think that's a viable solution. Why not go for "skip to the end of the form" type links (they can even be graphical for sighted users)? Seems to me these would be the least bothersome, and not about to break even in older browsers...
Patrick
Mordechai Peller wrote:
Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
well, imagine the user has a screenreader or braille display and is tabbing through the form . they end up on the first submit button, and have no way of knowing that there's more after that button, so they submit it at the first intermediate step...not good.
That's not a problem. All you need to do is make sure the tab indexes are higher than than the last element. Also, iirc, setting the tab index to -1 will make it unaccessible by tabbing; just make sure you don't do that to the last one.
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