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Re: Tabindex and initial focus

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From: Steve Green
Date: Feb 1, 2018 11:16AM

Good grief, do they think it's 1999? Unless you're able to add some JavaScript to remove all those tabindexes or add tabindex="1" to an element at the top of the page, I don't think there's much you can do. Perhaps someone can write a browser extension that does that.

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd


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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Joseph Sherman
Sent: 01 February 2018 18:08
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Subject: [WebAIM] Tabindex and initial focus

Our PeopleSoft application uses positive tabindex on every interactive item in forms. No, we cannot change this. Yes, it's very annoying. Assuming focus is in the correct order, the problem is that initial focus for screen readers starts on the first tabindex on the page, skipping any directions or instructional material at the top of a page.

Is this an inherent property of positive tabindexes, that they steal initial page focus, or is this something we can change?


Joseph