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From: Brian Lovely
Date: Nov 14, 2019 10:46AM

A non-semantic container of instructions that don't relate to any
individual input are hard to discover because the screen reader has
switched into forms mode. I saw a technique where the element is provided
with a role of document and tabindex of zero. It didn't work too well when
I tested it without the tabindex, but to me this breaks the "semantics" of
only actionable elements being in the focus order.

Does anyone have any suggestions about making instructions in a form more
discoverable?

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*Brian Lovely*
Capital One Digital Accessibility
804.389.1064




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