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Re: Identifying focus rectangles

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Feb 6, 2019 2:17AM

On 06/02/2019 07:24, <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:

> For a screen reader user, how can they detect focus rectangles when the
> keyboard focus is on an element? Is this an requirement to check the CSS and
> possibly the Javascript? Is there any other methods?

I'd say that this is one of those SCs that are very difficult, if not
outright impossible, to test fully for a non-sighted user (as there can
be so many variations in how the element is being styled, and the
styling may even be placed programmatically on a parent/ancestor
element, requiring you to analyse potentially the whole DOM branch going
all the way to the root of the page).

P
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