Re:Browsers are pretty good at loading pages
by TeMPOraL on Sunday July 21, 2019 @05:44PM
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By "keyboard" I assume you mean TAB-key-based navigation (I don't know of any other included in the browsers)? If so, it looks to me that links are in fact TAB-stops, but they're not being highlighted. It's something that should be solvable with a CSS adjustment.
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If the links are not highlighted by default, then tab navigation is basically non-existent since I cannot see where I'd be redirected and I personally bother to write custom CSS only for the websites I visit very often.
Is there an actual reason to disable highlighting? It lowers usability and accessibility, but I'm not sure what do you get in return?
Re:Browsers are pretty good at loading pages
by StavrosK on Sunday July 21, 2019 @06:19PM
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Oops, I'll fix that, thank you. I'm assuming the designer thought it looked "better".
Also I use Vimium so I never noticed, since that mode of navigation is much faster.
Re:Browsers are pretty good at loading pages
by extra88 on Sunday July 21, 2019 @07:30PM
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> Is there an actual reason to disable highlighting?
Some browsers, Chrome especially, show the focus outline when elements are clicked with a mouse and some people think it looks unacceptably bad.
Focus-visible is a CSS property meant to solve that but it’s only supported in Firefox and requires browser heuristics to do the right thing.