Comments on: How to complain about inaccessible websites http://www.communis.co.uk/blog/2010-02-02-how-to-complain-about-inaccessible-websites Notes from the sharp end of web accessiblity Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:17:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Paul Ratcliffe http://www.communis.co.uk/blog/2010-02-02-how-to-complain-about-inaccessible-websites/comment-page-1#comment-37451 Paul Ratcliffe Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:22:28 +0000 http://www.communis.co.uk/blog/?p=114#comment-37451 Ouch indeed! A quick look at the site in question shows that a major part of the problem that the user was experiencing on the site was down to the use of CSS to suppress the 'focus rectangle' - that thin dotted line that by default Internet Explorer and Firefox put around the element that has the keyboard focus (it's line 9 of their stylesheet, should anyone want to take a look). This is a piece of poor practice we at Communis have sadly seen many times before - check out our blog post on <a href="http://www.communis.co.uk/blog/2009-06-09-visibility-of-the-keyboard-focus-good-and-bad" rel="nofollow">keyboard focus visibility</a> back from June 2009. Things like this are simple and cheap to fix for an experienced web developer, and it can make a world of difference to a lot of users! Ouch indeed! A quick look at the site in question shows that a major part of the problem that the user was experiencing on the site was down to the use of CSS to suppress the ‘focus rectangle’ – that thin dotted line that by default Internet Explorer and Firefox put around the element that has the keyboard focus (it’s line 9 of their stylesheet, should anyone want to take a look).

This is a piece of poor practice we at Communis have sadly seen many times before – check out our blog post on keyboard focus visibility back from June 2009. Things like this are simple and cheap to fix for an experienced web developer, and it can make a world of difference to a lot of users!

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