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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: May 17, 2016 10:30AM

As with most SCs, whether it's a pass or a fail will depend on the
specific situation (for instance, how much "stuff" was actually skipped
over when the focus was set further down in the page). Your mileage may
vary...

P

On 17/05/2016 17:22, Maxability Accessibility for all wrote:
> 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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