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Re: Focus not "obscured" to "overlapped"

From: Todd Libby <toddlibby@protonmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:47:44 +0000
To: Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>, "WCAG list (w3c-wai-gl@w3.org)" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
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Best,

Todd Libby

On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 04:58, Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> The last (very last, I hope) potentially normative issue on WCAG 2.2 is:
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> https://github.com/w3c/wcag/issues/2583
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> Summary: Is it leaving a hole that the component/indicator could be behind a semi-opaque layer?
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> If so, should we change the SC to talk about overlapping instead of obscuring?
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> E.g. When a <a>user interface component</a> receives keyboard focus, the component is not entirely overlapped by author-created content.
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> That means opacity doesn’t figure into the scope, if it overlaps it overlaps.
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> That change is implemented in:
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> https://github.com/w3c/wcag/pull/2634/files
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> Does that work? Any objections?
>
> -Alastair
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