Website Accessibility Guide

2.4.3 Focus Order

Written by MCS Accessibility Team | May 29, 2020 10:48:00 PM

Understanding 2.4.3 Focus Order

The purpose of this success criteria is to ensure that users that cannot use a mouse can still navigate your site in a logical order. When tabbing through the site, make sure your site is in a meaningful order. 

Recommended Solutions

  • Align the focus order with the reading order.
  • Place interactive elements in an order of importance. 
  • Use proper headings.
  • If your page does not need to be in a certain order you do not need a focus order. For example, a page of links.