Default focus indicator used

supplemental

Normative Text

The focusable item uses the user agent default focus indicator.

Tests

This section is non-normative.

Procedure

For user agents that allow the customization of focus indicators:

Use the keyboard to move focus onto the item.
Check that the focus indicator is the user agent’s default indicator.
For platform display changes, check that the focus indicator’s color is correct for the type of element.

Expected results

#2 and #3 are true.

Tests

This content needs to be written.

Key Terms

assistive technology

hardware and/or software that acts as a user agent, or along with a mainstream user agent, to provide functionality to meet the requirements of users with disabilities that go beyond those offered by mainstream user agents

Functionality provided by assistive technology includes alternative presentations (e.g., as synthesized speech or magnified content), alternative input methods (e.g., voice), additional navigation or orientation mechanisms, and content transformations (e.g., to make tables more accessible).

Assistive technologies often communicate data and messages with mainstream user agents by using and monitoring APIs.

The distinction between mainstream user agents and assistive technologies is not absolute. Many mainstream user agents provide some features to assist individuals with disabilities. The basic difference is that mainstream user agents target broad and diverse audiences that usually include people with and without disabilities. Assistive technologies target narrowly defined populations of users with specific disabilities. The assistance provided by an assistive technology is more specific and appropriate to the needs of its target users. The mainstream user agent may provide important functionality to assistive technologies like retrieving web content from program objects or parsing markup into identifiable bundles.

Assistive technologies that are important in the context of this document include the following:

screen magnifiers, and other visual reading assistants, which are used by people with visual, perceptual and physical print disabilities to change text font, size, spacing, color, synchronization with speech, etc. in order to improve the visual readability of rendered text and images;
screen readers, which are used by people who are blind to read textual information through synthesized speech or braille;
text-to-speech software, which is used by some people with cognitive, language, and learning disabilities to convert text into synthetic speech;
speech recognition software, which may be used by people who have some physical disabilities;
alternative keyboards, which are used by people with certain physical disabilities to simulate the keyboard (including alternate keyboards that use head pointers, single switches, sip/puff and other special input devices.);
alternative pointing devices, which are used by people with certain physical disabilities to simulate mouse pointing and button activations.

component

grouping of elements for a distinct function

content

information, sensory experience and interactions conveyed

focus indicator

pixels that are changed to visually indicate when a user interface component is in a focused state

items

smallest testable unit for testing scope

Items could be an interactive component such as a drop down menu, a link, or a media player.

They could also be units of content such as a phrase, a paragraph, a label or error message, an icon, or an image.

state

dynamic property expressing characteristics of a user interface component that may change in response to user action or automated processes

States represent data associated with the component or user interaction possibilities. They do not affect the nature of the component. Examples include focus, hover, select, press, check, visited/unvisited, and expand/collapse.

user agent

any software that retrieves and presents web content for users

user interface component

To be defined.