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Re: visual focus for anchor tags

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From: Gunderson, Jon R
Date: Feb 14, 2011 10:09AM

I suggest if you are developing a website to set you own focus styling using CSS psuedo elements:

.active
.focus
.hover

Example website using this:
http://www.oaa-accessibility.org/

Jon



-----Original Message-----
From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Hoffman, Allen
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 9:45 AM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: [WebAIM] visual focus for anchor tags

Just noticed that IE7 when tabbed to an anchor tag loses visual focus
indication.
FireFox puts a small red dot there in this circumstance.
Anybody know if IE8 or 9 fix this?
Why is focus lost for anchor tags?
Why does even FireFox use such a not so highly visible focus indicator
for anchor tags?


Allen Hoffman