Automatic Focus change Does it violate an accessibility standard?

1. Is autofocus bad for accessibility?
2. Why just following the guidelines may not provide 100% accessibility compliance?
3. What are the 4 principles of Web accessibility?
4. What are rules of items upon which guidelines WCAG 2.0 are based?

Is autofocus bad for accessibility?

Use careful consideration for accessibility when applying the autofocus attribute. Automatically focusing on a control can cause the page to scroll on load. The focus can also cause dynamic keyboards to display on some touch devices.

Why just following the guidelines may not provide 100% accessibility compliance?

Even after you follow all of those best practices, why do we say, “don't claim 100% conformance with WCAG?” Here's why: when it comes to some of the WCAG success criteria, there are gray areas where even experts disagree, and you can't guarantee that there won't be usability issues across an audience with varied means ...

What are the 4 principles of Web accessibility?

There are four main guiding principles of accessibility upon which WCAG has been built. These four principles are known by the acronym POUR for perceivable, operable, understandable and robust. POUR is a way of approaching web accessibility by breaking it down into these four main aspects.

What are rules of items upon which guidelines WCAG 2.0 are based?

The guidelines are organized under 4 principles: perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust. For each guideline, there are testable success criteria. The success criteria are at three levels: A, AA, and AAA. The success criteria are what determine “conformance” to WCAG.