There is a new reading order attribute coming to fix this.

felixfbecker · 2024-03-02T15:31:02 1709393462

There already is one in ARIA that supports this: aria-owns [1] and to some degree aria-flowsto [2]

But with everything in ARIA, it always depends on real-world support of screen readers, which is very poor. You have to work with what actually works unfortunately.

Imo changing order just to change the streaming order for a tiny performance gain is not worth breaking the UX for people with accessibility needs.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/A... [2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/A...

Lorin · 2024-03-01T22:42:01 1709332921

Why wouldn't they just amend the existing feature so it's accessible?

_heimdall · 2024-03-02T05:13:12 1709356392

Backwards compatibility I'd assume. Someone could have taken advantage of the fact they flex order and accessibility order are different.

Changing the functionality now would break those sites, adding a new CSS prop would make the fix opt-in.