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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: May 17, 2016 9:39AM

On 17/05/2016 15:12, Mike Barlow wrote:
> One of my contacts just brought up something I hadn't heard of before. They
> have a form that they set the default focus to the first input field on the
> form but was told that was a violation because screen readers would not
> read the top of the page if the focus was set into a field. Now, I haven't
> tested the screen reader doing that, but I'm pretty sure that's correct
> (that's pretty much how the "Skip Navigation" works). However, I'm not
> certain if that is really a violation or not (don't recall any particular
> Guideline that addresses that particular issue).

Arguably it's related to 2.4.3 Focus Order
https://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-WCAG20-20081211/#navigation-mechanisms-focus-order
- and more generally, a user may not be aware that they have been moved
somewhere other than the start of the document, so may not be aware that
there were other elements/content prior to their position.

P
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