Closed Bug 1071553 Opened 10 years ago Closed 10 years ago

Tab key should skip elements with "pointer-events: none"

Categories

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: timwi, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0
Build ID: 20140917194002

Steps to reproduce:

The purpose of the Tab key is to navigate between elements on a webpage as a substitute for using the mouse to select and click on things.

When a webpage author assigns the CSS property “pointer-events: none” to an element, they are signalling that the element cannot be selected or clicked on. More aptly, it means that the element is not available for navigation.

Therefore, the Tab key should not set focus to such elements, but should skip over them.
Component: Untriaged → Keyboard Navigation
OS: Windows 7 → All
Hardware: x86_64 → All
Version: 32 Branch → Trunk
Blocks: 822898
Component: Keyboard Navigation → DOM: Events
Product: Firefox → Core
No longer blocks: 822898
I don't think there is a spec that implies this, and there *are* specs about how to deal with tab navigation, which involve using the tabindex attribute (setting it to -1 will mean the element gets taken out of the tab navigation order).

I think this should be invalid/wontfix.
Component: DOM: Events → Keyboard: Navigation
I'm not aware of any spec which would require pointer-events: none; to cause tabindexing to be no-op.
pointer-events: none; doesn't affect to focusability, but to hit testing.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 10 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Component: Keyboard: Navigation → User events and focus handling
You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.