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Re: In-page links and programmatic focus

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From: Jim Homme
Date: Sep 12, 2016 12:39PM

Hi Nick,
By "focus" It sounds as though you mean change the focus of the computer. Based on this, I feel that you should just let the anchors do their work and avoid forcing focus to do anything but what the browser makes it do.

Jim


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Subject: [WebAIM] In-page links and programmatic focus

Hi folks,

My team and I are having a discussion about in-page links. We are trying to determine if it's necessary to programmatically shift focus to the target element once an in-page link is activated.

What behavior do you expect? If I have an anchor that targets an ID on the page, do I also need to add an element.focus() handler (with subsequent tabindex=-1 if necessary)?

Thank you,

Nick

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