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From: Jennison Mark Asuncion
Date: Jul 1, 2015 4:10PM

Hi,

If a page loads, and focus is programmatically set, say to go directly
to a User Name field (i.e., a screen reader user would be unaware of
any content above), does that make the page nonconformant with WCAG?
My gut is saying it does, but I am unsure and need a sanity check and
the guideline reference (if my gut is right).



Jennison