- From: David Poehlman <david.poehlman@handsontechnologeyes.com>
- Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 19:06:38 -0400
- To: Mike Brown <mike@signify.co.nz>
- Cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Hi Mike and all, There are at and platform/user agent combinations which would ignore this. even without the at, this will be the case. As for those that play along, this happens all the time and while it can be a bit anoying, we just use our tools to read the page. check out google for instance. On Apr 23, 2006, at 6:04 PM, 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. It then occurred to me that a screenreader, on loading the page, would be immediately at the form filed and miss all the information before the field. I tested briefly in a demo copy of JAWS and found that to be the case. It seems to me this is a major accessibility issue for the form. Would an experienced screenreader user has some way of overriding this behaviour which would mitigate the problem? Are they any alternative ways of accomplishing the same thing? Thanks for any help. Mike
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