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Re: data table pagination - focus position?

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From: glen walker
Date: Nov 8, 2018 7:30PM


Good point, Isabel, but I was only commenting on the focus issue. We
didn't talk about notifications, which I would do with a live region
instead of a toast message. But I would still leave the focus on the
"next" button.

On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 7:56 AM Isabel Holdsworth < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Only thing is, if you leave the focus on the "Next page" button,
> screenreader users might not know that the page was updated and might
> keep pressing the button and thinking it doesn't work.
>
> I would either pop up an accessible toast telling users the new page
> number ("Page 3 of 7"), or provide a heading with the same information
> just above the table and move the focus to the heading. And as a
> screenreader user myself, I think I marginally prefer the second
> solution as it lines me up for reading the new records.
>
> Cheers, Isabel
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