move the navigation bar later in the tab order

[jadelennox]

Title:
move the navigation bar later in the tab order

Area:
navigation bar

Summary:
The navigation bar could be given some high tabindex numbers so it always shows up late in the tab order.

Description:
The navigation strip is useful to have around, but its forms are very rarely something I want to interact with. Usually, when I am choosing a form field, it's something in the body of the page (comment forms, polls, etc.).

The interest search in the navigation strip should be accessible via keyboard (i.e. don't use tabindex 0), but it shouldn't be the first item. If we gave it high tabindexes (100?) that would keep it available but late in the tab order.

NOTE: this actually won't take effect until all of the other tab-able objects on the site have a tab order, which is part of some already existing open bugs. On pages where tab-able objects exist but lack a tab order, the navigation strip will still come first. The question is not about whether we should have a tab order, but about where the navigation strip should fall in that order.

Poll #3971 move the navigation bar later in the tab order

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 27

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Should be implemented as-is.
7 (25.9%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (3.7%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
1 (3.7%)

(I have no opinion)
18 (66.7%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[matgb]

only if the login boxes are deliberately first and second in the tab order. I use the navbar to login constantly, and I know others do too.

[jadelennox]

D'oh, I hadn't thought of that. I'm always logged in, so I forget the login boxes are there-- which is awesome, because I've written some of the code around them. *facepalm*

Login boxes being 1-4 (or 1-5, I forget), search being 100,101? although that would cause a usability problem, because people expect tab order to follow visual layout. *hmph* Tricky.

[matgb]

I stay logged in on this machine, but semi-regularly end up on completely other machines, I tread DW main site as my bloghost, and visit it to do stuff, I want/need tob e able to login easily from my page, and also want commenters to be able to do so easily, some people have DW accounts just to comment on my and my fiancée's journals, ergo anything that makes it harder for them is bad.