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Re: Focus order issue ... Could Aria-controls have an effect?

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Sep 21, 2019 8:33AM

aria-controls alone should not affect anything in the underlying code,
not even content order, but "should" is the operative word here, there
are some crazy things going on in the work of web content markup.
If you turn the screen reader off and retest, or force screen reader
into application/forms mode, are you able to reach the menu?


On 9/21/19, Steve Green < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Recently, I have seen a couple of instances where JavaScript is being used
> to control the focus order, so it does not follow the sequence you would
> expect from inspecting the DOM. In one case it was causing a keyboard trap
> that had us baffled for a while.
>
> Steve
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