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From: Vaibhav Saraf
Date: Oct 6, 2020 12:18PM

Thanks Glen.


On Tue, 6 Oct 2020 at 23:41, glen walker < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> >
> > > > >