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From: Jennison Mark Asuncion
Date: Sep 10, 2014 10:10AM

Hi,

I'll recheck, but I've been told that when a screen reader is not
running, focus acts correctly on all pages.


Jennison
On 9/10/14, <EMAIL REMOVED> < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> 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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