[wp-hackers] Lack of focus rectangles on links in the WP admin

[John Blackbourn]

Er, therefore I agree with you Jeremy that it should be restored to
the default. No need to change it to anything else other than the
default.

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 6:29 PM, John Blackbourn
<johnbillion+wp at gmail.com> wrote:
> The ugly dotted rectangle is universally recognised as the current
>  focus point and shouldn't be changed or removed.
>
>
>
>  On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 1:41 AM, Jeremy Visser <jeremy.visser at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > I'm concerned about the fact that when a link in the new WP admin is
>  >  focused (e.g. selected by the Tab key), it has no selection rectangle
>  >  around it.
>  >
>  >  If I were trying to navigate around my WP admin with my keyboard (I was
>  >  using a computer with a mouse that was not working on Friday, so I
>  >  wouldn't have been able to use WordPress if I wanted to then), I
>  >  wouldn't have been able to, because I wouldn't have been able to see
>  >  which link I had focused with the Tab key.
>  >
>  >  I agree that the rectangles are ugly, but accessibility > appearance.
>  >  Please remove the "outline: none;" code from the CSS.
>  >
>  >  What I did for the Install4Free style was not removing the dotted
>  >  outline rectangles, but making them a prettier solid grey instead.
>  >  <http://install4free.wordpress.net/>
>  >
>  >  We could possibly have a red outline (same colour as the link hover
>  >  colour) when focused instead of the ugly dotted rectangle.
>  >
>  >  --
>  >  Jeremy Visser                                 http://jeremy.visser.name/
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