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Alice Boxhall
Personal blog · alice.boxhall.au/articleswebsecurity
Alice Boxhall's personal blog at alice.boxhall.au covers web and security. Since 2025, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “A threat model for accessibility on the web”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for accessibility advice on HTML structure and keyboard focus order. The linked post argues that tab order should follow the HTML source rather than being set manually.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Alice Boxhall is a software engineer who works on web browsers.
Most-linked posts?
- A threat model for accessibility on the web4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-10-02
What Hacker News says?
You almost certainly don't want to assign tab order manually. Theoretically, if your html is out-of-order for some reason, then you can fix it with taborder, but there are so many issues with out-of-order html that it's much better to avoid that in the first place. Even on modern websites, it is almost always easier to lay your html out in the correct order rather than messing around with the order via CSS. (I read…
Comment linking /articles/a-threat-model-for-accessibility-on-the-web/
on “Just use a button”Submitted A threat model for accessibility on the web as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted A threat model for accessibility on the web as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted A threat model for accessibility on the web as a story · 2 points
HN discussion