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Tabindex At Your Peril

Tabindexing allows a designer to specify the order in which links or controls receive focus on a page when using the TAB key to move around.
For example:
<ul>
<li><a href=”one.html” tabindex=”1″>Item 1</a></li>
<li><a href=”two.html” tabindex=”2″>Item 2</a></li>
</ul>
Elements on a page that do not have an associated tabindex will have a ‘natural’ ordering (ie they will follow the [...]

Firefox 2.0: The Right Change In The Wrong Way

Firefox 2.0 introduces some changes in its default keyboard mapping compared to previous versions. Specifically, where keyboard navigators might have previously used:
ALT + A.N.Other Key
to activate a site facility that had an accesskey assigned to it, they’ll now have to use:
ALT + Shift + A.N.Other Key

Mouseless Browsing: new version

The latest version of the Firefox plugin ‘Mouseless Browsing’ (version0.4.1) is available from the author’s web site.
Thus far, it seems to work well in Firefox 1.5 although there are some features that you should be aware of.

Ain’t Life Fun?

It may have seemed rather quiet around here lately but there is a reason for that. All hell has been breaking loose behind-the-scenes!
One of my most annoying (recent) problems involves my left wrist. Some time in late June, I developed tenosynovitis - a condition in which a tendon becomes inflamed. Having done the whole “rest, [...]