Developing a Keyboard Interface Practice: Add note about pointer activation and roving tabindex/aria-activedescendant

[patrickhlauke]

Adds a new note advising authors to also change the roving tabindex / set the correct aria-activedescendant reference as a result of pointer interactions (clicks, taps, ...) as otherwise there will be a mismatch for users that navigate with both keyboard and pointer.

Also adds <code> ... </code> around relevant words like tabindex and aria-activedescendant

Closes #1710

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The ARIA Authoring Practices (APG) Task Force just discussed PR 3311: Add note about pointer activation and roving tabindex.

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<jugglinmike> Topic: PR 3311: Add note about pointer activation and roving tabindex
<jugglinmike> github: https://github.com//pull/3311
<jugglinmike> Matt_King: This is a change to the keyboard section. Patrick submitted a pull request that's related to an issue he raised
<siri> can you add me as reveiwer to the 3328 bug?
<jugglinmike> Matt_King: This kind of gets at the changes that were made to the editor menu bar
<jugglinmike> Matt_King: I've added myself as a reviewer
<jugglinmike> Matt_King: I will be looking at it from the point of clarity. From an editorial standpoint: "is it saying what it says clearly?"
<jugglinmike> Matt_King: I'd like someone else to review and decide if it is saying what it needs to say
<jugglinmike> arigilmore: I can try to take a look
<jugglinmike> Matt_King: Okay, that would be helpful
<jugglinmike> Jem: I've assigned arigilmore

[mcking65]

Thank you @patrickhlauke . I like the simplification in response to feedback from ariellalgilmore! Very much appreciate the PR!