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Re: Focus indication for Disabled elements?

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Jun 9, 2017 7:44AM

Disabled controls should only very rarely be keyboard navigable. There's an
excellent explanation of and guidance for this at
https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices-1.1/#kbd_disabled_controls

I've typically found that any time a disabled control is expected to be
focusable (such as a disabled form button that indicates validation errors
elsewhere in the form) that there is significant potential for confusion
for users (such as users activating the disabled button not knowing that
it's disabled).

Jared