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From: Heidi Valles
Date: May 12, 2015 10:18AM

Thank you Bryan and Jonathan!

It sounds like moving focus to a newly opened panel might not be as
disorienting as I thought, and maybe even somewhat expected. Also makes
sense that moving focus is itself the implicit indicator that a panel has
expanded. In the case I'm dealing with now, it would be moving focus to an
iframe at the top of the page.

Thanks for the input!

best,
Heidi


On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> [Heidi wrote]
> > I generally don't like the idea of moving focus automatically, but in
> this case it seems helpful.
>
> In this case the button press is user initiated so it's not really
> happening automatically without the user being aware.
>
> > Though at the same time, not helpful if the user doesn't want to move
> into the panel contents, and just wishes to toggle-close and move on.
>
> If the user were closing a panel the focus should definitely not move.
>
> > Also, I think moving focus might skip the "expanded" feedback from the
> button?
>
> If the user is on an expandable buttons and presses enter and is moved to
> somewhere else the user would expect that they likely were moved to the
> expanded content. So the missing feedback would not be an obstacle IMO.
>
> Jonathan
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