Is it possible to skip over check boxes when tabbing through fields?

[Jennifer Sculley]

I am creating a fillable form that needs to be filled out very quickly, so ease of use is of the utmost importance. I have pages that contain many check boxes, but when the user is tabbing through, I don't want them to have to hit tab to pass each one of these check boxes to get to the next text field. Is this possible? I am on a working on a Mac using Adobe Acrobat Pro XI.

[try67]

No. The only way to exclude fields from the tab order is by setting them as

read-only.

On Mar 11, 2016 1:00 AM, "Jennifer Sculley" <forums_noreply@adobe.com>

[Jennifer Sculley]

‌thank you for the response. Is there any workaround to have an interactive object with on/off states besides a check box that could be bypassed in the tab order?

[George_Johnson · Accepted solution]

It's possible to use JavaScript in a field's On Blur event to force the focus to a particular field. So one approach you can take is to set the tab order so that the field's you want excluded are at the end, and in the last field that you want in the tab order do something like:

// On Blur script for a field

getField("name_of_field").setFocus();

where "name_of_field" is the name that you want to set the focus to.

[Jennifer Sculley]

It works! Thank you so much!