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Re: Disabled elements need keyboard focus?

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From: Rakesh P
Date: Feb 25, 2017 6:23AM

Yes Joel, I agree with you. I hope this will be raised in LV Task Force and
addressed in WCAG 2.1 or WCAG 3.0

On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 3:16 AM, J Isaac < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> A question has been tugging at me while I've been reading this thread.
>
> Screen reader users are clearly disadvantaged if disabled elements are not
> marked up sufficiently, but there seems to be a lot of support in WCAG.
>
> WCAG 2.0 treats disabled elements as incidental in terms of color contrast.
>
> How do you support low vision users that are not covered but may be
> similarly disadvantaged?
>
> Thanks,
> == Joel Isaac
>