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Re: focus indicators and usability studies

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From: Nancy Johnson
Date: Jun 16, 2014 6:04AM

Let me know if I am wrong, but there was a period a few years back
that Eric Meyers original reset.css removed the focus.

Our client has a few legacy sites developed at the time. I did
accessibility testing on these sites and indicated one of the reasons
it didn't pass WCAG 2.0 AA because of lack of focus, I indicated the
very low Level of Effort it would take to fix the issue. Haven't heard
anything yet.

If designers/developers were trained during this period. they may hang
onto old ways(?)

Nancy

On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 2:12 PM, < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> You folks made me laugh a lot with your responses. If I had
> direct access to the Naysayers in question I absolutely would do
> those things. :D
>
> Kevin's question in particular made me smile:
>
>
>> 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?
>
>
> I'm having happy dreams at the moment of an imaginary world where
> design decisions are actually made this way (which would include
> paying attention to the usability studies about how much users
> really hate change).
>
> I think Michelangelo's link from NNG is exactly what I needed --
> now hopefully they will listen. (I don't think there's a
> usability use case they are trying to meet with removing focus
> indicators, although like I said I don't have direct access to
> the people making those decisions. I think it's more that they
> don't necessarily understand why they exist, and "usability
> study" is more convincing language to them.
>
> Thank you, all!
>
> Deborah
>
> > >