Focus indicators for large editing areas #2017

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for some ideas on this issue which Michael Gower raised:
https://github.com/w3c/wcag/issues/2017

Consider a large editing area, e.g. a blog post or code editor which has a caret (indicator of where the text-entry is). Should that be required to have a focus indicator proportional to the entire editing area?

For small text inputs we have text in the understanding which say (paraphrasing) that a caret is not a sufficient indicator. That is a good thing for a user filling in multiple small inputs.

However, a large editing area seems like a different scenario, a bit like the note we added for target size about spatially based targets.

Is a multi-line editing area a "user interface component"? (I think yes, but perhaps we need to separate it for multi-line editors?)

Kind regards,

-Alastair

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