Tabindex bug in Post - Write

[kovshenin]

I'm not sure why the tabindex for the "send trackbacks to" field is 7. It conflicts with the in the custom fields "add new field" which is 7 (field name) and 8 (field value), so it's pretty annoying to have to press tab twice to get from field name to field value (through send trackbacks too).

[wojtek.szkutnik]

This fixes the tracebacks conflict, now "excerpt" and "tracebacks" are a 6.

Another nice improvement would be fixing the name->delete->update->value route in custom fields to name->value->delete->update , but I think it can't be done as long as this part of ui is table-based...

[azaozz]

IMHO we would need to review the use of tabindex everywhere. It seems it's not needed in many places and some are incorrect.

The order of "tabbing" through the screen is very important for screen readers. All browsers do it consistently from left to right and top to bottom so we would need tabindex only where we want to break that order (like on the edit post screen where title and content should be 1st and 2nd).

[wojtek.szkutnik]

Indeed. Related: ​http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6352

In the admin panel, tabindexes are used in only a few places, like the menu, where otherwise we would get multiple "expand menu" links, or the mentioned post edition screen. I will take a close look at all cases, while working on 6352

[sabreuse]

Most tabindexes have been removed in [21311]; tabbing now works as expected in the Custom Fields metabox.