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Re: Where do single page applications fail WCAG2?

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Feb 10, 2015 4:27AM

On 10/02/2015 10:38, Lynn Holdsworth wrote:
> And as for focus order, the focus seems to go to the first link in the
> document, which is where it would go if a whole new page were loaded,
> so I'm not sure I can fault them on that.
>
> What I really want to fail them on is something around AT not being
> alerted to the fact that new content has loaded. JAWS for one isn't
> always great at refreshing its off-screen model, and in this case it
> tells me that I'm still on the Login button, which doesn't exist in
> the newly loaded view.

This sounds more like the focus is actually lost, rather than being
programmatically set to the newly shown content. A subsequent TAB would
then go to the first link in the document, purely because the browser
actually lost it and reset it to the start of the document.

P
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