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Re: QuestionVisual button order versus announced button focus order

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From: Graham Armfield
Date: Jul 10, 2015 10:54AM

It's surely important to have the Submit button first in the content order
- if that's the usual response required from the form.

Don't forget that the first button in any form becomes the default button.
So if a user presses Enter whilst in the form the default button action is
the one that gets fired - unless of course you have somehow overridden that.



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Graham Armfield



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On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 4:48 PM, Moore,Michael (HHSC) <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> The screen reader will normally read in source code order. The exception
> is when you have used a positive tab index and the user is moving through
> the form using the tab key to navigate active element to active element. In
> this case it will follow the specified tab sequence. Positive tab indexes
> are considered harmful in most cases. If you think that you need them there
> is probably something wrong with your source code order.
>
> Mike Moore
> Accessibility Coordinator
> Texas Health and Human Services Commission
> Civil Rights Office
> (512) 438-3431 (Office)
> (512) 574-0091 (Cell)
>
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