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Re: Meaningful Sequences for "Back" and "Continue" on Wizards

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From: Lynn Holdsworth
Date: Dec 9, 2014 4:18AM

I'm an impatient screenreader user. I rush through forms as fast as I
can, and assume the first button I come across is the submit button.
I've lost count of the number of times I've accidentally gone back a
step or cleared the form I've just filled in. So from a personal
perspective I'd love the Continue button to be the first one in the
source code.

Thanks, Lynn

On 08/12/2014, Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> In my opinion this seems off, but most of the people that I talk to don't
>> see this as a big issue since the business wants the user to see the
>> "Continue" button as the default button.
>
> In my opinion these situations can be confusing but sometimes helpful. As
> long as they are consistent they wouldn't appear to be accessibility
> violations. A common example of reading order that doesn't match the visual
> order is Wikipedia -- on that site the main content is first in the reading
> order despite content to the left and above it. One additional group that
> this is confusing for is people with low vision who may use text-to-speech
> but can see the page.
>
> Jonathan
>
>