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Re: WCAG – Form fields and focus reset after JavaScript jump menu

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From: Laura Fathauer
Date: Mar 5, 2019 8:04AM

It sounds like its losing focus when you change the element value, which I
indicate is a problem with Focus Order. Logically, after you change that
value you'd want to go to the next element, not the top of the form.

Laura


On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 9:44 AM Maupin, Brennan Polaris McCaffrey - maupinbp
< <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Hi all, I have a quick question about a website that I am looking over and
> wanted to see if someone could point me in the right direction.
>
> This website uses a number of drop-down forms to reserve a room and two of
> them have JavaScript functions attached to dynamically control the
> drop-down options further down on the page (very much like WCAG SCR19-Using
> an onchange event on a select element without causing a change of context<
> https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Techniques/client-side-script/SCR19>).
>
> My issue with these JS functions is that sometimes when they are triggered
> (like if I go back and correct an earlier form,) when I press tab again,
> they seem to "reset" the focus back to the topmost form field.
>
> I can see how if it *automatically* changed focus it would definitely be
> violating 3.2.2, but I am not sure since there is no actual shift of focus
> until I press tab myself. Does anyone know if this compliant with WCAG or
> not?
>
> Thanks so much,
> Brennan
>
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