Copilot Autofocus on Homepage breaks expected focus order

[KonnorRogers]

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When you navigate to the GitHub home page, the GitHub Copilot input has autofocus set on it.

This is a really poor practice as it breaks the expected focus order for the page, its annoying as a keyboard user to have to tab off of the input to scroll the page with arrow keys, and for screen reader users can be really confusing to have focus automatically shifted to an input with no interaction on the page.

https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/navigation-mechanisms-focus-order.html

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[cehfisher]

Hello @KonnorRogers - thank you for taking the time to submit your feedback! I shared your feedback with the GitHub accessibility team and they worked to get a fix in place. Can you re-test this on your end to confirm that the issue has been resolved? If you are still experiencing the issue you reported, please provide any additional details you think might be helpful for the team. Thanks so much!

[KonnorRogers]

Thank you! I can confirm it no longer autofocuses on page load! I appreciate the quick fix! And also adding the option to disable it :)