Tab order in message creation form

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I find the tab order in the message creation form counterintuitive. It goes:

  1. Recipient
  2. This is an official warning.
  3. Body
  4. Message (send)
  5. Cancel

Note that the subject line isn’t in this sequence at all, which also seems weird.

Also, #2 is a little freaky to be honest, should it be so prominent? I could imagine it being outside of the default tabbing sequence: so maybe:

  1. Recipient
  2. Subject
  3. Body
  4. Message (send)
  5. Cancel
  6. This is an official warning.

(Rather similar topic to this other post on topic index order).

Thanks!

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It is visually counterintuitive (cause focus jumps around in weird ways), but yes, I agree with this change. Thoughts @Designers ?

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Hey there, I like these suggestions. Would you mind walking me through how you are creating a message?

In my testing, I do so by clicking your name, then clicking message. The order for me (on firefox) is

  1. subject / topic title
  2. this is an official warning
  3. body
  4. Message (send)
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Tab order is critical for accessibility, we ought to make sure we check this for each release @sam @eviltrout.

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