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From: Jared Smith
Date: Apr 8, 2008 7:50AM

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 5:40 AM, Mike Bleasdale < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> i am cued to what has focus by the browser applying a dashed background.

Well, at least most of the time. I just blogged on the increasing
implementation of code that hides the focus indicator -
http://webaim.org/blog/plague-of-outline-0/

The best solution to all of this is and will be the inclusion of role
definitions in ARIA and XHTML2 and the section elements in HTML5.
These allow you to mark-up page sections as navigation, main content,
etc., thus allowing user agents the ability to navigate directly to
them.

http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#sections
http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/#roleattribute_inherits
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xhtml-role-20071004/#s_role_module_attributes

Jared Smith
WebAIM