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Re: research on location of submit buttons

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From: Steve Green
Date: Apr 2, 2009 1:15PM

Changing the tab order is not a good solution. I have seen utter confusion
during screen reader testing with sites that do this. The problem is that
the content is read out in one order in 'virtual cursor' mode (i.e. normal
reading mode) but the order changes when JAWS is in 'forms mode'.

If the user jumps in and out of 'forms mode' (as they often do), they cannot
understand why the page appears to be changing all the time.

Can you not present the opinions of this list as evidence that the design is
bad?

Steve