Colin Lieberman wrote:
Drop tabindex altogether. It's just not useful.
Before doing that, it might make sense to consult the accessibility teams of the UA vendors. In Mozilla's case, that's Aaron Leventhal. I believe that there have been recent changes to this property to better allow keyboard accessibility of DHTML widgets:
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Key-navigable_custom_DHTML_widgets Gerv
