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screen readers: forcing focus on forms
From: Angela French
Date: May 7, 2013 2:45PM
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It has been our practice in our development shop to force focus into the first form element on a page with a form. This is meant to assist the quick filling in of the form. In my testing with NVDA (all I have), this appears to be problematic for screen reader users in that any instructions or information on the page that appear above the form is bypassed. Is the way that I perceived this, with my inexperienced usage of a screen reader, typical of the way most screen readers users would encounter such a page?
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Angela French
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