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Re: Error message summaries, alerts and focus

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Aug 7, 2023 10:26AM


On 07/08/2023 16:57, Steve Green wrote:
> Or does SC 4.1.3 not apply since the focus is being moved to the error message?

This.

Once you move focus to something, it's not a "status message" in the
SC's sense https://w3c.github.io/wcag/guidelines/22/#dfn-status-messages

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