Rachel Andrew notes an excellent new feature of CSS that Chrome is dropping first: reading-flow
and reading-order
.
There are CSS features that can move elements to places that make what the tabbing order (thus “reading order”) super different than what the visual order of the elements is. This can be an awkward jumpy-aroundy experience and it’s considered an accessibility problem.
This is a step toward fixing that. I took a very basic example from the spec to try it out and made a Pen. See this video I took in Chrome Canary how it goes from the wrong order to the right order: