Hey Alastair,
I still don't really follow the argument why, if you're in something like
Adobe illustrator, and you have a circle there that when focused, the
resize / rotate controls show up. Why wouldn't the circle itself count as
the visual indicator that those hidden resize / rotate controls exist?
On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 10:23 AM Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>
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> Hi everyone,
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> Yesterday we discussed the ‘design canvas’ exception, for areas of a page
> which have multiple (1 to thousands) of things which are editable.
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> The (very) draft version of that exception can be seen / commented /
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> https://github.com/w3c/wcag/pull/2288
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> “The trigger for hover of focus is an editable item within a region of the
> page dedicated to editable items;”
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> A key thing to understanding this is that:
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> It is partly an issue because if you make a design-oriented interface
> keyboard-accessible, then focus will trigger this SC rather than hover.
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> We did discuss removing the focus aspect, but it leaves a logical hole
> where anything which shows extra UICs on focus would pass, even if it also
> uses hover.
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> Kind regards,
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> -Alastair
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