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Re: Jquery.focus() and screen reader

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Aug 16, 2017 10:01AM

On 16/08/2017 17:00, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
> Don't set tabindex=0 on non-interactive elements, as otherwise they'll
> fall into the regular keyboard focus cycle.

sorry, missed out the second part of my thought: set it to tabindex="-1"
which means "programmatically focusable (e.g. via JS), but not in the
regular focus order"
P
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