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Re: strange sr issue

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From: deborah.kaplan
Date: Sep 10, 2014 9:59AM


I have recently encountered some pages with a form at the bottom of the
page which captures the keyboard focus via JavaScript, and drags the screen
reader cursor down with it. Could it be something like that?

Deborah Kaplan

On Wed, 10 Sep 2014, Jennison Mark Asuncion wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm experiencing an issue that I haven't seen before, which is only
> happening when a screen reader is running. In a set of otherwise
> accessible web pages, on some pages, the screen reader will
> immediately go to the bottom of the page. Again, this is not happening
> on all pages, and has been seen with VO and Safari, NVDA and FF/IE,
> and JAWS with IE/FF.
>
> Has anyone else experienced this type of behavior? I figure it will
> end up being something simple being overlooked. If folks have guidance
> on things to check, in order to troubleshoot this, that would be
> appreciated.
>
> Jennison
> > > >
>

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