Fwd: Setting a more visible focus indicator

good technique for users. tho I think most users have trepidation with this
level of technical configuration.
Jim
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From: Glenda Sims <glenda.sims@deque.com>
Date: Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 4:13 PM
Subject: Fwd: Setting a more visible focus indicator
To: Wayne Dick <wayneedick@gmail.com>, Jim Allan <jimallan@tsbvi.edu>,
Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>, Laura Carlson <
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Wayne, Jim, Alastair, Laura,

James Nurthen has been saying it is easy to control the visual focus in
Firefox.  I couldn't find it in preferences...so I just got James to show
me how he does it.  While I feel comfortable doing this...it is geeky in my
humble opinion.

I wanted to share this info with y'all too. So you could be thinking about
it.

My brain keeps telling me we should be pushing on the browser / UAAG folks
for some fixes here too.
G

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From: James Nurthen <james.nurthen@oracle.com>
Date: Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 4:04 PM
Subject: Re: Setting a more visible focus indicator
To: Glenda Sims <glenda.sims@deque.com>


It is not an exposed preference unfortunately - but all the functionality
is there. Creating an addon with this should be trivial - while I would
love FF to add this into preferences I suspect - as this has been in FF
since 2001 - that is unlikely.... Looking at the mozilla documentation I
see this was originally checked in by Aaron Leventhal!

If you go to about:config and "Accept the risk"



Type  browser.display.focus_ring into the search box



Then Set the values to
focus_ring_on_anything - true
focus_ring_style - 1 (dotted like the default) , 2 (blue ring like safari)
focus_ring_width - 4 (width of ring or dots)




There are also 3 other relevant preferences to play with which can give
other useful effects:

browser.display.use_focus_colors
browser.display.focus_background_color
browser.display.focus_text_color

Regards,
James


On 3/28/2017 1:51 PM, Glenda Sims wrote:

Hi James,

You've mentioned a few times that there is a way to make the visible focus
indicator really really prominent in Firefox.  Can you help me understand
how?  I poked around in preferences (in Firefox) and didn't see it.

Is it a widget you've added?  Or are you using a custom style sheet?

Or do I just need more coffee???

Thanks much,
Glenda


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