Managing Focus - A11ycasts #22

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Single page web apps are awesome but may present interesting accessibility challenges. In particular, when the site loads new content, it needs to be able to inform an assistive technology user that the new content is available, and ideally move focus into the new area.

Today on A11ycasts we'll look at how you can manage focus using a simple tabindex trick to improve the efficiency of your keyboard and screen reader navigation.

Controlling focus with tabindex: https://goo.gl/PahEb3

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