RE: Focus onto control that only appears on focus?

Does tabbing/swiping elements with zero opacity work on all platforms? I seem to recall a browser not focusing elements with zero opacity when tabbing from the address bar … might be a flashback to IE.

 

 

 

From: Michael Livesey <mike.j.livesey@gmail.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2024 8:25 AM
To: Jeremy Echols <jechols@uoregon.edu>
Cc: WAI Interest Group discussion list <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Focus onto control that only appears on focus?

 

Thanks, Jeremy,

Yes, I totally forgot about skip links good point.

Thanks.

On Monday, February 12, 2024, Jeremy Echols <jechols@uoregon.edu <mailto:jechols@uoregon.edu> > wrote:
> I think this is pretty common for skip links and paragraph permalinks a lot of sites use. I don’t know that it’s even bad UX, but for accessibility it is definitely *good*, even when it can be a little unexpected. Always-visible links that only help keyboard users would arguably be worse UX.
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> From: Michael Livesey <mike.j.livesey@gmail.com <mailto:mike.j.livesey@gmail.com> >
> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2024 01:39
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> Subject: Focus onto control that only appears on focus?
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> I have a question about focusing onto a control that is opacity: 0 when not focused.
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> So you hit "Tab" and you are taken to a control that has opacity: 1 set on its :focus pseudo selector, thus it was invisible and it only appears on focus.
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> When focused, the control will have a focus ring.
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> I know this isn't ideal UX, but is this disallowed under any criteria please? 
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> Thank you