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From: Steve Vosloo
Date: Aug 14, 2002 11:32PM

Also, it can confuse a user on assistive technologies to have the focus
immediately placed in the text box. I've never tested this myself but
have read that because screen readers work linearly through a page it is
confusing for the user to suddenly start half-way through a page.

Steve