This is correct
I fought hard for “highly visible” focus indicator instead of “visible” which means little but gets the problem known. We could not get consensus on it. On reason was that it was hard to create something testable. The focus indicator has to work across all the different background and pages and text and images and and and. And if there is multicolored background. I wanted something like “a person with 20/20 vision could see the indicator from a distance of 6 feet from the screen when not zoomed”. It is constructed but is something that can be done by any developer to check their work.
gregg
> On Feb 24, 2016, at 8:27 AM, Paul J. Adam <paul.adam@deque.com> wrote:
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> Contrast is only required for text and images of text according the WCAG’s normative SCs. I see nothing about focus outlines or focus indicators. WCAG simply says focus must be "visible" with no definition of that term. So I can interpret that however I want :)
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> I can come up with lots of other loopholes.
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> Thanks!
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> Paul J. Adam
> Accessibility Evangelist
> www.deque.com <http://www.deque.com/>
>> On Feb 24, 2016, at 5:31 AM, josh@interaccess.ie <mailto:josh@interaccess.ie> wrote:
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>> Paul said:
>>> I’d also like to see contrast requirements for focus outlines, another current WCAG loophole.
>> Why do you consider it a loophole? Is it not understood that for focus indicators need to satisfy colour contrast/luminosity ratios?
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>> At least, anyone who is seriously trying to satisfy WCAG SC here should understand that to meet the requirements for the focus indicator, the criteria to satisfy would be the same.
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>> Thanks
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>> Josh