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Bug 13200 - Please add a warning about removing the outline for focussed links, because it can cause accessibility problems.
Summary: Please add a warning about removing the outline for focussed links, because i...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
Whiteboard:
Keywords: a11y, a11y_focus
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2011-07-10 16:03 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-18 21:42 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-07-10 16:03:48 UTC
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/editing.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#element-level-focus-apis
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#element-level-focus-apis

Comment:
Please add a warning about removing the outline for focussed links, because it
can cause accessibility problems.

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User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0
Comment 1 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:35:53 UTC
mass-move component to LC1
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-08-18 21:41:02 UTC
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments.
Comment 3 contributor 2011-08-18 21:42:06 UTC
Checked in as WHATWG revision r6511.
Check-in comment: add a note about accessibility
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6510&to=6511