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From: Laura Roberts
Date: May 15, 2022 7:21PM

I'm testing a webpage with JAWS that has a pop-up window.

The pop-up window has two tabs at the top, text in the body, and one button
at the bottom: "close".

The focus is on the "close" button and I have to hit CTRL+Home to make JAWS
read from the top of the pop-up window, or Shift+Tab (but a blind user
wouldn't know the tab buttons exist) or hit the up arrow a bunch of times.

This doesn't seem accessible to me, but maybe there's a good reason to have
focus on "close". I mainly work on PDF remediation so I don't know WCAG
inside and out.

I hope I explained that ok! I'm under an NDA so I'd have to redact stuff on
a screenshot.

Thanks,
Laura