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Re: focus indicators and usability studies

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From: David Ashleydale
Date: Jun 12, 2014 6:01PM

I don't know of any usability studies on this topic either, but I would be
curious to find out if there are particular instances where they would like
to remove the visual focus indicators. Surely they're not saying that they
think all visual focus indicators should go away. That is very easy to
demonstrate the folly of as the others have pointed out. But maybe there is
some corner case that they are trying to make a case for.

David

On Thursday, June 12, 2014, Katie Haritos-Shea GMAIL < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
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> Another idea would be to have " Mr. or Mrs. Naysayer" take their tablet
> outside along with their lunch. Have them (try to) follow Karl' steps in
> his
> suggested use case - outside.......
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> Karl Groves
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> "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>
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> > 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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