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From: Isabel Holdsworth
Date: Oct 26, 2018 1:28AM

Are the search results structured in a way that makes it easy for the
user to navigate to the first result, say by flagging them up with an
H1 heading or something to that effect?

If so, then users shouldn't find it too difficult to get back to where
JAWS started reading from. Most screenreader users will be comfortable
with this type of scenario, and may not need any extra help.

On 20/06/2018, Tim Harshbarger < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> That sounds like a better approach to me. I also believe it is possible to
> change the JAWS settings so it doesn't automatically start reading the page
> contents. If that is the case, you might also want to share that with
> them.I wonder if it would be useful to provide FreedomScientific with a
> suggestion to just notify the user that the new page has loaded instead of
> automatically start reading the page. Of course, that probably is only a
> good suggestion if my assumption is correct that the feature was originally
> introduced to let the user know that the new page has been loaded.
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