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Re: [External Sender]Instructions inside forms

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From: Brian Lovely
Date: Nov 15, 2019 10:07AM

...and perhaps I should have added that these instructions then get skipped
when the screen reader switches into forms mode.

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 12:06 PM Brian Lovely < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> These things are generally put inside the open and close form tags (in my
> experience), which is where my whole discoverability dilemma comes from. If
> they were simple text nodes in a non-semantic container outside the form I
> wouldn't have a problem.
>
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 11:48 AM Patrick H. Lauke < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> wrote:
>
>> On 15/11/2019 14:39, Brian Lovely via WebAIM-Forum wrote:
>> [...]
>> > That's what's so tricky about this. The info is important, but relates
>> to
>> > the form as a whole, so it's less obvious how to make it discoverable.
>>
>> As said, it's discoverable when screen reader users navigate/read
>> through the page before getting to the form. SR users don't just jump
>> straight to whatever first form field is on a page, generally (I get the
>> feeling that there's perhaps an underlying assumption here that it needs
>> to be focusable as otherwise SR users will never discover something,
>> which is not the case).
>>
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