Disabled pagination links should not be focusable

[bobbylight]

For accessibility reasons, disabled links (spans) in the pagination footer should not be focusable, either via clicking with the mouse or tabbing to them. The "1-10 of 100 results" region shouldn't be focusable either. It seems this can be fixed simply by not setting tabIndex on these spans.

While there's surely a better workaround, I can "fix" grids with the following JS:

GridUtils.fixA11yBugs = function(grid) {

   // Make the "x-y of z results" text non-focusable
   query('.dgrid-status', grid.domNode).forEach(function(elem) {
      elem.removeAttribute('tabindex');
   });

   // Make disabled pagination links non-focusable
   aspect.after(grid, '_updateNavigation', function() {
      var disabledNavSpans = query('.dgrid-page-disabled', grid.domNode);
      disabledNavSpans.forEach(function(elem) {
         elem.removeAttribute('tabindex');
      });
   });

};

[bobbylight]

Note that the .dgrid-status section might be focusable specifically for screen readers - so the user is read what region of the results they're looking at. So that one arguably shouldn't be fixed (I'm no expert in this area, not sure). But the disabled pagination links I believe shouldn't be focusable.

[kfranqueiro]

Yes, the status node was specifically made focusable so that keyboard navigation could land on it and it could be read by screen readers.

I think you've got a fair point with the disabled paging controls though, judging by how disabled buttons work, for example.