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The user needs some way to override/hold off focus changes. User macros including speech commands execute over time. Unwanted focus switches can produce bad results. In addition, speech users don't necessarily change the focus by moving the mouse -- this makes them more likely to get caught with bad focus changes.
The HTML Accessibility Task Force intends to track these issues, per the proposal at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2010Jan/0245.html.
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Did Not Understand Request Change Description: no spec change Rationale: How exactly do you mean "hold off"? Do you mean that the focusing steps should optionally asynchronously wait for a period of time and then change the focus? Or do you mean that focus changes should just be disabled at the user agent's option?
http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/44061/20100520_bugs/results#xq9 Close without further action, accepting the current state of the issue.