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From: Maxability Accessibility for all
Date: May 17, 2016 10:22AM

It may be a violation in most cases but in certain situations focus will be
set to a particular element on the page purposefully. Eg: On www.google.com
default focus moves to the search field. Do we ask the customer to change
this behavior referring to accessibility guidelines?

Thanks & Regards
Rakesh



On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 9:09 PM, Patrick H. Lauke < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> 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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