Comment (including rationale for any proposed change):
SC 3.2.2 Changing the setting of any form control or field does not automatically cause a change of context (beyond moving to the next field in tab order) unless the authored unit contains instructions before the control that describe the behavior.
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This is the only SC with a parenthetical clause (beyond moving to the next field in tab order). UAWG believes the clause violates user expectations of form control behavior.
Further, the clause violates UAAG Checkpoint 9.3 Move content focus (P1) http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-UAAG10-20021217/guidelines.html#tech-nav-active
Techniques for checkpoint 9.3
1. Allow the user to move the content focus to any enabled element in the viewport.
2. Allow configuration so that the content focus of a viewport only changes on explicit user request.
3. If the author has not specified a navigation order, allow at least forward sequential navigation, in document order, to each element in the set established by provision one of this checkpoint.
Sufficient techniques
1. To satisfy provision two of this checkpoint, configuration is preferred, but is not required if the content focus only ever changes on explicit user request.
Default behavior is for content focus only ever changes on explicit user request.
Proposed Change:
remove the clause (beyond moving to the next field in tab order)
We have accepted your recommendation and removed the parenthetical clause. Note that auto-advance-focus can be an important accessibility aid for the mobility impaired, so it is still permitted, but only if the user has been warned about it as they would be if configured their user agent for this behavior.
Developed and maintained by Jon Hardin at the Trace Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
$Date: 2007/05/17 13:52:57 $ $Author: bcaldwel $