Jacques Newman
Jacques Newman
### What problem are you trying to solve? Authors routinely hand-code “roving tabindex” logic for composite widgets like toolbars, tablists, menus, listboxes, and grids. In practice, this means providing a...
* [Explainer on OpenUI](https://open-ui.org/components/scoped-focusgroup.explainer/) * [whatwg issue](https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11641) This is an **early draft** to add the `focusgroup` attribute to allow for declarative focus navigation using the directional navigation (arrow keys, d-pad)....
Today, an element with tabindex=-1 is **never** considered to be sequentially focusable, but focusgroup is attempting to change this in order to guarantee a single tab stop. Consider the following...
Created out of https://github.com/openui/open-ui/issues/1314#issuecomment-3469766888 I don't personally feel strongly here, and thought the "Existing" behavior was reasonable, but opening this up of discussion ### Existing behavior When navigating using sequential...
A quick search for "positive tabindex" will give a myriad of articles asking developers to not, but the current focusgroup does allow for these positive values to impact behavior e.g....
@benbeaudry brought this up in a discussion today when going over the explainer. Focus group already has a definition, and even [a Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus_group): > A focus group is a...
Specifically, the grid section takes up a lot of the existing explainer, and is not something we are ready to go after for the first version of the API, should...