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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Oct 19, 2018 4:58AM

That sounds like a Jaws bug to me. I'd recommend filing it and having FS fix it.
I think we can't always work around screen reader bugs, especially
when the workaround may cause issues for other users (e.g. if removing
the tabindex causes the skip link to break for keyboard only users, in
this situation it might).


On 10/18/18, JP Jamous < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> 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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