Sorry about that -- it appears that pressing enter while holding down the
control key sends the message ( a new keystroke I didn't know about...)
Here's the complete message I was trying to send:
On Tuesday, November 30, 2004 9:09 AM, Kornel Lesinski wrote:
> Does that really matter?
Yes, focus highlighting does matter. I come across this daily -- and I'm a
keyboard user by choice, not someone who has no choice but to use the
keyboard...
> In Firefox and IE there is a focus border anyway.
Which isn't exactly prominent - it provides a faint outline around the
element. Changing the background and text colours in the CSS is much more
prominent and is easier to spot. Besides, we add :hover effects to things
for mouse users - why wouldn't we also provide similar benefit to keyboard
users?
> IE doesn't support :focus or outlines, so there isn't much you can
> help.
Right, however, IE (mistakenly, I suspect) treats :active the same as
:focus. Adding a separate rule for IE and :active will provide the benefits
for IE keyboard users...
For example:
a:focus {color: #346095; background-color:#fff;}
a:hover {color: #346095; background-color:#fff;}
a:active {color: #346095; background-color:#fff;}
So, please, please, if you want to make your sites more accessible to
keyboard users, add :focus and :active rules to match your :hover rule.
Best regards,
Derek.
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