- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 20:57:41 -0800
- To: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Cc: Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>, Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>, "kennyluck@csail.mit.edu" <kennyluck@csail.mit.edu>
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com> wrote: > On Nov 24, 2014, at 11:17 AM, Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net> wrote: >>> Or just let the outline disappear once the offsets would overlap each other in either dimension. Just as if you had something like 'box-shadow: 0 0 0 20px white inset, 0 0 0 21px black inset', the visible part of the black shadow disappears at smaller box sizes. >> >> That’s possible indeed, but I don’t think I prefer it, as this risk to cause accidentally disappearing outlines, causing usability or accessibility issues > > Is it worse than having the outline be a rectangle in the middle of the button, covering up the button's text? As someone who has been annoyed by outlines being suppressed and making keyboard nav basically impossible, yes, a disappearing outline is worse than one that sits right in the middle of the element. The latter is terrible, of course, but at least you know where your focus is. ~TJ
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