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From: Sailesh Panchang
Date: Sep 23, 2015 3:49PM

Jonathan,
Sorry, I do not think that is an Apple / iOS issue if the form / page is
poorly marked up from an accessibility viewpoint.
The next/prev button help one get back within the form.
Then one can swipe left/right to read content surrounding a form control.
My query is: why is there no dismiss keyboard with VO on the iPhone ...
Cliff says it is available visually.
Thanks,
Sailesh


On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> > I believe the issue is moot now.
> Above the keyboard on an iPhone and my mini iPad now running iOS9.01 and
> iOS8.4 (respectively) I can navigate to a forward / Back or Next and
> previous button pair that fairly reliably move focus to the next / prev
> form field.
>
> Regardless of buttons to move between fields I still consider it important
> for the user to be able to fill out a form field and then continue on
> reading the text after the field before going to another field. Some
> fields have instruction text and page's don't always associate the text
> with form fields.
>
> Jonathan
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