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From: Iaffaldano, Michelangelo
Date: Jun 13, 2014 11:45AM

If your designers do not trust WAI perhaps they will believe the Nielsen Norman Group? As usual they link to their own research, some of it free:
http://www.nngroup.com/articles/keyboard-accessibility/


Regards,
Michelangelo

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Subject: [WebAIM] focus indicators and usability studies

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