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From: David Feld
Date: Feb 6, 2019 7:06AM

Thanks, Jonathan. You're right, I didn't consider the scenario of switching back and forth. Good call.

David


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Sent: Tuesday, February 5, 2019 8:17:56 PM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Keyboard focus only

> What are your general thoughts on applying focus only when keyboard use is detected?

My concern is for users such as low vision users who switch back and forth between using the mouse and keyboard for navigation. There are cases where the user may use the keyboard and then the mouse and then may expect to take up where the keyboard was. Similar issue may happen for alternative input users as well who may switch between speech recognition and some other tool such as eye tracking. My preference would be to give the user control if keeping the keyboard focus is absolutely not possible. There was a discussion on github in the WICG https://github.com/WICG/focus-visible/issues/128

Jonathan

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Forgive me if this has already been discussed -- I scanned the archives and didn't see it: What are your general thoughts on applying focus only when keyboard use is detected? Paul Adam (who I've seen on this list) made a demo:

[ http://pauljadam.com/demos/keyboard-focus-only.html | http://pauljadam.com/demos/keyboard-focus-only.html ]

In other words, mouse users would never see the focus. At first blush, this seems like a good way to make both keyboard users and web designers happy. Am I missing something?

David

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