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Re: Tabbing and the hover event

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From: Mike Osborne - AccEase
Date: Oct 2, 2008 6:00PM

Thanks for that - wasn't aware of the :focus CSS pseudo class. Just tested
it out - brilliant in Firefox.

In general we should be seeing in a stylesheet

a:hover, a:focus {

...some styling

}

so that keyboard users get a similar experience to mouse users.

Just tried the a:hover, a:focus in some browsers:
Safari for Windows - can't tab to links, only form elements
Firefox 2 - works fine
IE6 & IE7 - focus not supported
Google Chrome - works fine
Opera 9.50 - tab for form controls and focus not supported, Ctrl + cursor
down arrow for next link has browser highlighting (no focus or hover)
Netscape 8.1 - works fine

Regards
Mike Osborne

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