In reply to Kerry Webster.

For what it's worth, this is hardly "change for change sake". One of the biggest problems with the old version of the form, and which wasn't mentioned in the article, was that previously, tabbing directly to and entering the comment form wasn't linearly possible in many cases due to how the fields were set up. In certain circumstances, would have to tab past the form, then shift-tab to get back to it.

You can probably imagine how well that worked out for non-sighted users or people using screen readers, or really anybody who uses keyboard navigation on a regular basis. The old process of accessing the comment form was essentially: 1) Tab down to the comment form 2) Shift-tab back a step to enter into the comment form 3) Leave a comment. I think that qualifies as broken :)