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Re: Initial focus on search field?

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From: Don Mauck
Date: Sep 22, 2014 2:47PM

The biggest problem we face is that most developers who don't understand accessibility think that placing focus on the first editable field is a good idea when in fact, it is a bad idea, even for keyboard users. From what I've been told a keyboard can have no cursor focus, that gives them that "flying blind".