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Focus order 0:29
A 29-second explainer of Focus order, narrated over the same demo you can try yourself.
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What this video covers
Focus order is the sequence the Tab key follows across a page. When it matches visual order, navigation feels natural; when it doesn’t, each tab can jump unexpectedly.
In the scrambled form, Tab sent you bouncing - email, then back up to name, then down past the message to the button - and you lost the thread of where you were. Switch it to natural order and the same keypress just walks down the form, the way reading does. That quiet predictability is the whole job of focus order.
