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Re: Focus should always be set somewhere, right?

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From: Bourne, Sarah (ITD)
Date: Feb 1, 2016 11:54AM

In the use case you described, a keyboard-only user would probably want to be put on the next item. But it might be better for screen reader users to be put at the beginning of the list, where they would be told "list of [x-1] items" as an affirmation that the item was deleted, or maybe on the previous list item. I can't imagine either being pleased with being put back at the top of the page. This is where some user testing would be valuable, or at least an analysis of what kinds of tasks are being worked on and what would be a logical next step in a workflow.

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Sarah E. Bourne
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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