Accessibility as a legal or moral requirement doesn't mean that anything that someone imagines could be better on some utterly broken screenreader needs to be implemented. I'm sick of this neverending "but broken screenreaders" song. The legal requirement is fulfilled when the page has proper semantic markup, is standards compliant and fulfills the usual non-syntactic stuff like "each img with alt text". Morally I also do not feel obligated to support any old and broken crap, same as I don't support IE.
On the context, we do agree however, autofocus should only ever be used on pages that are single-purpose. And no matter what the marketing department says, getting newsletter readers is never the single purpose of any page except for the plain "subscribe to this newsletter" page you might have hidden somewhere.
On the context, we do agree however, autofocus should only ever be used on pages that are single-purpose. And no matter what the marketing department says, getting newsletter readers is never the single purpose of any page except for the plain "subscribe to this newsletter" page you might have hidden somewhere.