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Re: Initial focus on search field?

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From: Michael Bullis, Executive Director, The IMAGE Center of Maryland
Date: Sep 23, 2014 7:24AM

As a user and not a developer, I too think it's a usability issue. If the
way you want visual people to use the site is by starting them at the
searchbox, then do it for nonvisual users as well. Google, back in earlier
iterations, use to set the focus to the searchbox automatically. I found it
very helpful, since that's where I wanted to go mostly.