- From: Mike Brown <mike@signify.co.nz>
- Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 10:29:09 +1200
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Patrick H. Lauke wrote: > > 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
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