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From: Karl Groves
Date: Jun 12, 2014 3:01PM

"I'm being asked for usability studies to support the notion that we
shouldn't remove focus indicators."

Man, is that ever a case for a guerilla usability test!

Here's my idea: Grab Mr or Mrs. Naysayer and travel from desk-to-desk
throughout the building. At each desk, have the person go to the site/ page
in question, load the page, and hit the tab key 10x. Then ask them what
will happen when they hit the Enter key.

Stop when Mr or Mrs. Naysayer beg for forgiveness.

;-)


On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 4:34 PM, < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> I'm being asked for usability studies to support the notion that we
> shouldn't remove focus indicators. Most of my go to articles for focus
> indicators take for granted that since WCAG and Section 508 extremely
> explicit about focus indicators, that's enough. But in this particular
> case, in order to convince the designers, I think I'll need to pull out
> some usability studies. Has anyone done usability or UX studies covering
> focus indicators? I was sure I knew of some but now I can't find them.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Deborah Kaplan
> > > >



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