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From: Mark Guisinger
Date: Aug 5, 2015 1:00PM

Hi all,I send my thanks in advance.  I'm working on a web application that has a search form and the results display on the same page.  The results section is hidden when the page is first loaded and displayed when the results are returned.  My problem is when the results are displayed the screen reader will start at the top and read the search form again.  I want to set focus to the results heading and have the screen reader read from there.  I have tried to set the tabindex=0 on the results heading when the results are displayed, that does not appear to be doing what I thought it should in FF and JAWS 15.
Thanks,MarkG