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From: mhysnm1964
Date: Dec 3, 2018 1:02AM

All,



I have just looked at a page. The developers were using aria-hidden to hide
a scroll down button from screen reader users. Since the button was not in
the accessibility tree. The focus would still land on the button. Jaws in
Firefox 63 would read out the <ul> in full. A keyboard user would see where
the focus was and could see how the content would scroll down.



Firstly, I feel the aria-hidden should be removed altogether and the scoll
down button is revealed. This brings to my question. What would be best
practise when someone presses this scroll down button and is a screen reader
user. Should the focus move to the first item which has been brought into
the viewport which can be interactive with?



Sean