408877 - Form controls always listed before anchors in tab order, regardless of stated order in the HTML.

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect)

Description

[Rich Caloggero]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; YPC 3.2.0; MathPlayer 2.0; SV1; (R1 1.5); .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2007121805 Minefield/3.0b3pre 

Attached is a simple page with one anchor and one form control. the anchor comes before the form control.
Run jaws and open the page.
Press control+home to move to the top.
Press tab and jaws will read the form control, not the anchor, even though the anchor comes first on the page.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
See above.
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Expected Results:  
I expect that the tab order should reflect the order of elements in the HTML stream, unless a explicit tabindex greater than zero is used on an element or elements.

Comment 1

[Rich Caloggero]

Attachment: Very simple HTML page meant to exercise this bug.

Comment 2

[David Bolter [:davidb] (NeedInfo me for attention)]

Mass un-assigning bugs assigned to Aaron.

Comment 3

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

Marco, can you confirm the bug?

Comment 4

[Marco Zehe (:MarcoZ)]

The HTML in this testcase is invalid. At the closing </a, the > sign is missing. Invalid bug.