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From: glen walker
Date: Oct 6, 2020 12:10PM

From a normative perspective, using auto-focus satisfies 2.4.1. It is a
mechanism for bypassing the repeated content. It works for keyboard users.

If you're asking, "how does a keyboard user get back to the bypassed
stuff?", they must use shift+tab. Ctrl+home just scrolls the screen to the
top and does not move the keyboard focus. (Actually, home/end scroll the
screen. If you use ctrl plus home/end, it does the same thing. Ctrl does
not affect the scrolling of the page.)

As far as what is the usability impact of having to do that, that's more of
a usability test. If you only have a handful of tabs (Birkir's rule of
thumb was 10 or less), then that might not be a burden, but that's a
subjective call. The fewer tab stops the better for some users. Other
users can press and hold the tab (or shift+tab) to navigate through a lot
of items.

On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 11:45 AM Vaibhav Saraf < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Hi Birker,
>
> A screen reader user will have multiple options given you have the heading
> navigation, landmark navigation, tab and normal arrow key navigation on
> such a page.
>
> Consider the case for a keyboard user who lands in the middle of the page
> all because auto-focus have to do a non-intuitive action of 7 Shift tabs to
> log out of the site. What will be the usability impact in such a case? Do
> shortcuts like Ctrl + Home work for a normal keyboard user as well?
>
> Thanks,
> Vaibhav
>
>
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