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From: Cliff Tyllick
Date: Sep 18, 2015 3:34AM

That's interesting, Sailesh. I had noticed that the iPhone lacks a key for dismissing the keyboard, but I had never thought about it in this context.

I'm not a developer, and I'm certainly not an iOS developer, but I see that there is a hotspot of sorts at the top center of the keyboard, just above and between the "T" and "Y" keys. For sighted users, a quick swipe down in that area will dismiss the keyboard. Because it is such a narrow band, it's hard to make that hotspot take and hold focus. I have to hold my finger on the screen just right to make that happen. Actually it happens any time I hover my finger right over that very narrow band

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> On Sep 17, 2015, at 4:00 PM, Sailesh Panchang < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
>
> Sure this is an issue while filling out any form on a mobile platform
> that I have always encountered as a screen reader user.
> I am referring to forms with multiple text boxes one after another
> including just a username and password field.
> When the form has two or more fields, the application cannot guess
> that one has finished entering data ... unless it is a standard
> phone# or date field and such.
> On an iPad one can dismiss the keyboard but not on an iPhone because
> there is no dismiss keyboard key.
> So when one dismisses the keyboard the focus should go back to the
> field that had focus or the next focusable element.
> Sailesh Panchang
>
>
>> On 9/17/15, Paul J. Adam < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> These are bugs with iOS VoiceOver. Please file a bug report with Apple. They
>> fixed a few of mine recently. I filed one not fixed related to <select>
>> controls not sending focus to the picker view whien you expand the select on
>> iPhone and when you close the picker the focus is not returned to the
>> triggering element instead the focus is lost to the top of the page and the
>> user would have to swipe all the way back to where they were.
>>
>> On iPad when you expand a select control the focus is trapped in the pop
>> over view which is great, but the focus is still lost to the top of the page
>> after dismissing the pop over.
>>
>> I've not looked into manually sending focus where you want it to go with
>> JavaScript.
>>
>> Paul J. Adam
>> Accessibility Evangelist
>> www.deque.com
>>
>>> On Sep 17, 2015, at 1:24 AM, Subhash Chhetri < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Accessibility Experts,
>>>
>>> Today I'm stuck in one issue in IOS. - Actually I'm filling an html form
>>> in IOS with Voice over, and I'm using on-screen keypad not the physical
>>> one. So the problem I'm facing is that when I finish typing in any form
>>> field and pressing Hide keyboard button located at the right end of
>>> on-screen keypad, focus doesn't move directly to the edit field, it
>>> remains anywhere in application.
>>>
>>> This is so frustrating that I have to go back to the form fields either by
>>> flicking left/right on screen or by selecting forms via roter.
>>>
>>>
>>> Is there anything I'm missing? Or it's a behavior of IOS.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Subhash Chhetri
>>>
>>> >>> >>> >>> >>
>> >> >> >> > > > >