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Re: Where do single page applications fail WCAG2?

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From: _mallory
Date: Feb 10, 2015 7:09AM

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 01:17:04PM +0000, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
> Indeed, this is one of the situations where WCAG 2 - for all its
> good intentions - has a serious gap, requiring sometimes creative
> reinterpretation of what an SC covers beyond the letter of the spec.
> I'd roughly justify failing something like the above for 2.4.3 Focus
> Order by making the argument that if focus is lost due to
> programmatic changes, that breaks the navigation sequence/order
> completely and then relies on the user agents to error-correct by
> resetting focus back to the start of the document on the next
> interaction. It could also be argued that it breaks 1.3.2 Meaningful
> Sequence, for the same reason.

Or, it's a bit the opposite of "don't pull the context out from under
users when they don't expect it". In this case, they expect a change of
context when there appears (to the user) not to be.
_mallory