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A11y Slackers Gitter Channel Archive 25th of March 2017

What fresh hell is THIS now? - Patrick Lauke
  1. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Mar 25 00:32
    [robdodson] +1 to all that was said above. You two have summed up my feelings perfectly :)
  2. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Mar 25 01:40
    [alice] We should have a browser setting to force focus ring on everything if users want it
  3. James Nurthen
    @jnurthen
    Mar 25 01:44
    FF has one. Hidden in about:config. I can look up the details later if anyone wants it.
  4. I use it when keyboard testing the functionality of pages with crappy focus indicators. Obviously I fail on the focus indicators but it lets me do the rest of the testing without getting really frustrated.
  5. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Mar 25 01:49
    [alice] @jnurthen that's great, TIL
  6. James Nurthen
    @jnurthen
    Mar 25 01:58
    I set browser.display.focus_ring_on_anything to true
  7. browser.display.focus_ring_width to 5
  8. that gives me a really obnoxious focus ring
  9. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Mar 25 06:20
    [robdodson] yeah i usually turn on VoiceOver when I'm debugging sites that have focus rings disabled because it adds its own focus indicator
  10. [robdodson] Interesting to hear about the FF feature. We should add that to Chrome =D
  11. James Nurthen
    @jnurthen
    Mar 25 06:23
    Yes you should @robdodson
  12. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Mar 25 06:24
    [robdodson] @alice and I can collaborate on that :)
  13. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Mar 25 17:43
    [elliottregan] This seems similar to Safari’s “Press Tab to highlight each item on a webpage”. If you are navigating with a keyboard, you probably want to see a focus indicator on everything. If you are using a mouse/touch, you probably don’t want to see that indicator.