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Re: programmatically setting focus on page load

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From: Greg Gamble
Date: Jul 1, 2015 4:16PM

As long as they could navigate back up, it still should conform. Bad habit, but a lot of sites do it.


Greg

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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Jennison Mark Asuncion
Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2015 3:11 PM
To: webaim-forum
Subject: [WebAIM] programmatically setting focus on page load

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