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From: Rakesh P
Date: Jan 4, 2017 2:09AM

As I understand from one of my friend, Chrome has a default indicator of
light blue. I think unless the background is dark the light blue indicator
does not pass contrast. On the other hand, FireFox and IE shows black
dotted indicator which needs light background to have a good contrast. If
we need to serve the needs of all the three browsers author supplied CSS is
required. All these are good practices but are not WCAG violations. See
G165: Using the default focus indicator for the platform so that high
visibility default focus indicators will carry over
https://www.w3.org/TR/2012/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20120103/G165

However, author supplied good contrast CSS technique is also recommended by
WCAG.
G195: Using an author-supplied, highly visible focus indicator
https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/G195.html

Thanks & Regards
Rakesh
www.maxability.co.in


On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 11:25 PM, Jared Smith < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> JP Jamous wrote:
> > I think it should have guidelines related to browsers manufacturers and
> to developers. That way, the manufacturers provide a clear outline and
> developers can customize their own that would work with low vision folks.
>
> You mean something like this -
> https://www.w3.org/TR/UAAG20/#gl-interaction-highlight ?
>
> Jared
> > > > >