{"id":2380,"date":"2014-04-16T09:53:14","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T13:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=2380"},"modified":"2014-04-16T09:53:14","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T13:53:14","slug":"tabindex-web-accessibility-tip-50-41614","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=2380","title":{"rendered":"Tabindex, Web Accessibility Tip #50, 4\/16\/14"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tabindex<\/h2>\n<p><b>Difficulty:<\/b> Advanced<\/p>\n<p><b>Category:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Structure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/webaim.org\/techniques\/keyboard\/tabindex\">Tabindex<\/a> values of 1 or greater assign a specific tab order to elements. Because the default tab order of the page is typically logical and intuitive, positive values are rarely necessary. A tabindex value of 0 allows elements other than links or form elements to be focusable in the default tab order of the document. Tabindex of -1 allow other elements to receive focus, but only when focus is set through JavaScript or via a link. Setting and modifying tabindex values and controlling keyboard focus with JavaScript can greatly increase the accessibility of dynamic and interactive web applications and widgets.<\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=149587675112835\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=2380\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tabindex Difficulty: Advanced Category: Structure Tabindex values of 1 or greater assign a specific tab order to elements. Because the default tab order of the page is typically logical and intuitive, positive values are rarely necessary. A tabindex value of 0 allows elements other than links or form elements to be focusable in the default [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,29,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2381,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions\/2381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}