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From: Amanda Nance
Date: Tue, Sep 28 2010 3:33PM
Subject: tool to show me what is in focus?
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Hi all,
I'm testing the accessibility of a web application that needs a lot of work.
Most of the focusable elements are NOT displaying differently, so I can't
tell where focus is when testing for keyboard only functionality. Until this
is fixed, is there a tool I can use to show where the focus is? This would
allow me to continue testing other aspects of the keyboard functionality
(e.g., tab order) much more easily.
Thanks!
From: J. B-Vincent
Date: Tue, Sep 28 2010 3:42PM
Subject: Re: tool to show me what is in focus?
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ZoomText 9.1 does this beautifully. You can download a demo from http://www.aisquared.com/zoomtext/more/download_zoomtext_trial/. Just set the magnification level to 1x.
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Subject: [WebAIM] tool to show me what is in focus?
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Date: Tuesday, September 28, 2010, 2:32 PM
Hi all,
I'm testing the accessibility of a web application that needs a lot of work.
Most of the focusable elements are NOT displaying differently, so I can't
tell where focus is when testing for keyboard only functionality. Until this
is fixed, is there a tool I can use to show where the focus is? This would
allow me to continue testing other aspects of the keyboard functionality
(e.g., tab order) much more easily.
Thanks!
From: Jablonski, James (LNI)
Date: Tue, Sep 28 2010 3:51PM
Subject: Re: tool to show me what is in focus?
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Hi Amanda,
A low-tech approach? With both IE6 under WinXP and IE8 under Win7, I
choose the High Contrast #1 Windows theme. Then I set IE's accessibility
formatting to "Ignore colors specified on webpage". Then I TAB through
the page and the focus lights up pretty well.
I hope that helps,
James
James Jablonski, Assistive Technology Consultant
Washington State, Department of Labor & Industries
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Subject: [WebAIM] tool to show me what is in focus?
Hi all,
I'm testing the accessibility of a web application that needs a lot of
work.
Most of the focusable elements are NOT displaying differently, so I
can't
tell where focus is when testing for keyboard only functionality. Until
this
is fixed, is there a tool I can use to show where the focus is? This
would
allow me to continue testing other aspects of the keyboard functionality
(e.g., tab order) much more easily.
Thanks!
From: Steven Faulkner
Date: Tue, Sep 28 2010 3:57PM
Subject: Re: tool to show me what is in focus?
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hi,
Aviewer is a free windows tool that among other things has a feature that
will put a focus rectangle wherever current focus is:
http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/?p=635
On 28 September 2010 22:32, Amanda Nance < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm testing the accessibility of a web application that needs a lot of
> work.
> Most of the focusable elements are NOT displaying differently, so I can't
> tell where focus is when testing for keyboard only functionality. Until
> this
> is fixed, is there a tool I can use to show where the focus is? This would
> allow me to continue testing other aspects of the keyboard functionality
> (e.g., tab order) much more easily.
>
> Thanks!
>
From: Shawn Lawler
Date: Tue, Sep 28 2010 4:03PM
Subject: Re: tool to show me what is in focus?
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You could drop something like this into your stylesheet.
*:focus {border:1px solid red;}
Or if you don't have direct access to the stylesheet, you could use the
'Edit CSS' feature of Chris Pederick's Web Developer browser extension (
http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/ ) to apply it to any page
you're viewing.
Cheers,
Shawn
On 9/28/2010 4:32 PM, Amanda Nance wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm testing the accessibility of a web application that needs a lot of work.
> Most of the focusable elements are NOT displaying differently, so I can't
> tell where focus is when testing for keyboard only functionality. Until this
> is fixed, is there a tool I can use to show where the focus is? This would
> allow me to continue testing other aspects of the keyboard functionality
> (e.g., tab order) much more easily.
>
> Thanks!
>
From: Amanda Nance
Date: Wed, Sep 29 2010 10:42AM
Subject: Re: tool to show me what is in focus?
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Thanks all for the suggestions!
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Steven Faulkner
< = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >wrote:
> hi,
>
> Aviewer is a free windows tool that among other things has a feature that
> will put a focus rectangle wherever current focus is:
>
> http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/?p=635
>
> On 28 September 2010 22:32, Amanda Nance < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > I'm testing the accessibility of a web application that needs a lot of
> > work.
> > Most of the focusable elements are NOT displaying differently, so I can't
> > tell where focus is when testing for keyboard only functionality. Until
> > this
> > is fixed, is there a tool I can use to show where the focus is? This
> would
> > allow me to continue testing other aspects of the keyboard functionality
> > (e.g., tab order) much more easily.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >