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Re: Identifying focus rectangles

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From: glen walker
Date: Feb 7, 2019 11:36AM

Sorry, was too quick to type and didn't explain further. Laziness on my
part from a mobile reply. You are correct.

On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 10:52 AM Steve Green < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> WCAG 2.1 doesn't say that. There is an exception "where the appearance of
> the component is determined by the user agent and not modified by the
> author". So if you apply any styling to the component, which includes its
> border and background colours, the success criterion applies even if you
> are using the browser's default focus indicator.
>
> For the exception to apply, the browser's default styles must be applied
> to all aspects of the component, not just the focus indicator.
>
>