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Re: Return to Top Link

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From: JP Jamous
Date: Oct 18, 2018 6:12PM

Similar to what Jonathan mentioned. If the <main tabindex="-1"> and the user
is reading using down-arrow, once the user presses the tab key to set the
focus on the next link in the DOM, the <footer> obtains focus because other
footer links have tabindex="-1".

Once I had the developers remove tabindex="-1" from <main> JAWS was behaving
as it does in all browsers. So bottom line, JAWS in IE11 was selecting the
next tabindex="-1" or tabindex="0" and bypassing the whole list of links on
the page content.

That only happens in JAWS 2018 and IE11. I tested it with JAWS 2018 and
firefox and Chrome and the problem was not present. The tab selected the
link that is next in the DOM from where the cursor was last in the DOM.

That surely confuses a user because the user expects the next link in the
DOM after the position of the cursor to obtain focus. However, the user is
immediately jumped to the footer and has to either shift + tab to go back or
loop around the end of the DOM back to the top.



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