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From: Kevin White
Date: Jun 12, 2014 3:22PM

I am curious, do they have usability studies for all design decisions that they make? Do they have any that show that removal of focus indicators *is* a good idea?

Kevin

On 12 Jun 2014, at 21:34, <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.
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> Thanks,
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> Deborah Kaplan
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