Re: Setting focus in a form and screenreaders

Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
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> Mike Brown wrote:
> 
>>
>> I've been asked to create a form and on page load have the focus set 
>> to a particular field in the form. I've used some javascript to do that.
> 
> I'd circumvent the issue by simply not auto-focussing the field.
> 

Yes, but it's not my decision to make, so I'm looking for arguments as 
to why. The usability one is probably not sufficient, but if it's a 
major accessibility problem for screenreader users, then that's probably 
sufficient to sway it. So I'm trying to find out if it *is* such a problem.

Mike