RE: Focus indicators for grouped controls

And is there any consideration of focus in virtual documents in an abstract definition of focus? Or accessibility trees?


-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick H. Lauke [mailto:redux@splintered.co.uk] 
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2019 8:46 AM
To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Subject: Re: Focus indicators for grouped controls

On 16/10/2019 21:22, Giacomo Petri wrote:
> Considering new technolgies (and of course future technologies not yet 
> invented, as suggested by Mitchell) should we use another term instead 
> of “keyboard focus” to refer to the “visual focus/active status 
> indicator” in its abstract concept?
 >
> A screen reader focus indicator on a mobile device for example, even if 
> doesn’t fit the “keyboard focus” definition (or should be?), allows 
> users navigating sequentially. The word “keyboard focus” from my point 
> of view may be confusing.

Well yes, I believe that was the whole point of this exercise - to find 
a more generic way to define "focus" in the abstract. The more specific 
"keyboard focus" term may have been used here as part of this 
discussion, but only to make it clear here in the thread that it's what 
we don't actually want to say / what we want to go beyond.

P
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