Re: Best approach for meeting Success Criterion 1.4.13 Content on Hover or Focus via ESC key

Hi Detlev,

I’m not sure what you’re looking for from the group or Steve, where your article said:
“One consequence could be that content on hover or focus should be triggered via scripts rather than via CSS pseudo-classes to prevent a situation where the content pops up again straight after dismissal.”

I think that is a fairly straightforward: If you use only CSS to create content on hover (or focus), then it must be for input errors or not replace other content.

You could theoretically create a keyboard event that hides any content shown on hover, but it would be very difficult to do in a reasonable way.

Given the difficulty they can cause, the idea was that people would avoid this or put the necessary work in to do it well (which includes JS).

-Alastair