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Re: Issue with on-screen keypad in IOS

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From: Sailesh Panchang
Date: Sep 24, 2015 2:22PM

Jonathan,
The done button above the keyboard dismisses the keyboard but as you
noted unfortunately moves focus to page top. If it works right and
place focus back in the same text box, then one should be able to
navigate preceding / following content.
Sailesh


On 9/24/15, Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I used a poor example to describe the situation I am concerned about.
> Consider a perfectly marked up form with an text input field then some
> checkboxes and radio buttons and then another text input field. The next
> and previous buttons on the keyboard will only move you to input fields and
> not to checkboxes or radio buttons.
>
> So as a VO user I would need to fill out the first input field then press
> the forward button then press the back button and then swipe right to get to
> the checkbox after the first input field. I would also have to know that
> the page contained non-text input fields which I might not be aware of.
>
> I would expect the preferred steps would be to fill out the input field then
> press done and then swipe right to get to the checkbox. To me this is
> comparable access.
>
> Jonathan
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