RE: Focus indicators for grouped controls

> Was thinking further that maybe it needs to clarify it in the sense of "each input mechanism > available to a user may have its own distinct "focus".

Conceptually, does that need to be the case?

If I tab around, that's my 'focus'. If I move my mouse, that isn't the focus until it starts interacting with the page (e.g. click), at which point that is my focus regardless of the tabbing, until I press tab again, at which point the browser has to decide where the focus is.

To try to draw that out:
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Focus:
The point where the user’s input interacts with the web page.
For example, tabbing through a page moves the focus. Clicking or tapping on the page would be the focus for mouse and touchscreen usage. Different inputs can be used by a user, but at any one time there would be one point of focus for the user.
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I'm excluding 'hover' as a point of focus, which hopefully makes sense.

You could of course try and tab and click things at the same time, but technically only one will be the focus at a time, the content would be switching quickly or ignoring one of them.

-Alastair

Received on Wednesday, 16 October 2019 16:48:10 UTC