[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 225148] [selectors] :focus-visible and keyboard events

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=225148

Brian Kardell <bkardell at igalia.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Brian Kardell <bkardell at igalia.com> ---
FWIW, the only distinction here between the existing ones is the pressing of a bare shift.  I think that we know that _generally_ we wouldn't want control characters to light it up because they are used too often and for too many things by browsers and apps - iirc we even had some feedback about this earlier with the polyfill (from slack I think).

To answer a quesition from the linked bug that is related - ~"why is it desirable?"... Knowing the "right" answer is extremely complex - :focus just said "it always matches" and creates way too many cases where this feels bad non-sequential focus users, ultimately disinecntivizing use at all.  Where there are questions focus-visible tends to err the other way, but provide a few escape hatches for keyboard users to allow them to "force" showing the indicator to see where they are.  Most of the time tab/shift+tab can be used by keyboard users for this purpose, but there are other cases where that is either awkward or just wont work. I believe shift to toggle was left as an explicit user affordance in chromium as one of these means.

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