{"id":36,"date":"2022-10-29T00:10:18","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T00:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/docs.joedolson.com\/wp-accessibility\/?p=36"},"modified":"2022-10-29T00:10:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T00:10:18","slug":"add-outline-to-elements-on-keyboard-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/docs.joedolson.com\/wp-accessibility\/2022\/10\/29\/add-outline-to-elements-on-keyboard-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Add outline to elements on keyboard focus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many themes do not provide a design for the view of links or other focusable fields when a keyboard user brings focus to that element. This makes it very difficult for visual users who are keyboard dependent to keep track of where they are. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A common pattern for this is to change the appearance of the element on keyboard focus; and this item adds an outline. Outline is rarely defined in most designs, so that ensures that the definition by this plug-in will almost always work and be visible; the same can\u2019t be said for text decorations like underline, since that may be the default state for links, and therefore would not be a change indicator. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20\/navigation-mechanisms-focus-visible.html\">Further reading about keyboard focus<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many themes do not provide a design for the view of links or other focusable fields when a keyboard user brings focus to that element. This makes it very difficult for visual users who are keyboard dependent to keep track of where they are. A common pattern for this is to change the appearance of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-remediation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.joedolson.com\/wp-accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.joedolson.com\/wp-accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.joedolson.com\/wp-accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.joedolson.com\/wp-accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.joedolson.com\/wp-accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/docs.joedolson.com\/wp-accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37,"href":"https:\/\/docs.joedolson.com\/wp-accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.joedolson.com\/wp-accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.joedolson.com\/wp-accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.joedolson.com\/wp-accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}