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- 4 Dec 02
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Heh…liked your Krug review *chuckle* krug as yoda…I can see that.
hmm…question. On the URL input field…why not just have “http://” already set as the value instead of using the onblur event to place it there? Also…no first field focus? ;b
dan on 4 Dec 02
I don’t set “http://” as the value of the URL field because if the form is submitted without the user entering a full URL, it will still link they’re name to http:// which doesn’t do much good.
As far as automatically focusing on the first field, I hadn’t though of that, but it’s a possibility. Do you know how that affects screen readers? I would be cautious to use that if it took someone where they didn’t want to go on the page.
Joshua Kaufman on 4 Dec 02
Are the majority of your readers blind?
dan on 5 Dec 02
hmm…after some thought you make an extremely good point.
I wonder if screen readers work on cursor placement? What about voice browsers?
dan on 5 Dec 02
After some research (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/aural.html) it looks like web pages get converted to plain text before being feed to the screen readers. Cursor placement wouldn’t be a factor then. However, I guess first field focus should still be one of those “right tool for the right job” sort of things.
dan on 5 Dec 02
Thanks for checking that out, Dan. Useful information.
I believe that every aspect of a design should be the “right tool for the right job.”
Joshua on 5 Dec 02