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From: KP
Date: May 17, 2016 1:45PM

It's been covered but definitely in my mind it's context dependent. Google is a bad example as that's an exception that breaks the rule but is widely understood.

If it's the next step in a form ie split into pages for visual comfort then absolutely the first firm field or heading is right. It's part of a process and your aim, sighted or not, is on filling it out.

Kevin

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> On 18/05/2016, at 7:38 AM, Patrick H. Lauke < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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>> On 17/05/2016 20:21, Tim Harshbarger wrote:
>> When I looked at SC 2.4.3, I noticed that the 3rd example mentions a modal dialog where focus is placed on the first interactable element. If that isn't a violation, then why would be doing the same on a web page be a violation?
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> Because a modal dialog is different from a page, and it has established/expected patterns from its native equivalents (for instance even if you fire up a browser-native alert() you'll see that focus is actually placed on the OK control in most cases).
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