[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #29974: Focus handle at wrong place when you click reply

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#29974: Focus handle at wrong place when you click reply
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 Reporter:  nhuja                 |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)          |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal                |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Comments              |     Version:  2.7
 Severity:  normal                |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch needs-      |     Focuses:  accessibility, javascript
  testing                         |
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Comment (by joedolson):

 For accessibility reasons, it's very disorienting to be dropped into a
 field that's in the middle of a form - you don't know what came before it
 or after it; you should always be dropped into the first field of the
 form, whatever that should happen to be.

 If WordPress had a smoother comment flow, so that the sequence of Write
 Comment > Submit Comment > Receive Error requiring you to enter name and
 email > Hit back button > find & finish form was less messy, this wouldn't
 be as big of a deal, but otherwise it's very awkward.

 Anybody who's commenting will either need to log-in or add their
 name/email before submitting the form no matter what, so it seems to me
 that whether they want to write a comment first isn't really the operative
 usability issue - the usability is improved by adding information in the
 presented sequence.

 The user has no reason to assume that there are any form fields other than
 the comment form that they need to fill out. Yes, that's standard if this
 is a WordPress comment form, but it's not the user's job to know what CMS
 the site they're commenting on is using. And even if it is WordPress, it's
 still possible that the comments are driven by Disqus, WordPress.com,
 Facebook, or some other service where they may already be logged in, and
 not need to add their name and email. They shouldn't have to navigate
 backwards in the form to discover whether there are additional fields to
 fill in.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/29974#comment:8>
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