Motor impairment

✎ Technique: Managing focus and inactive elements

Visually indicating which element has focus is important for effective keyboard navigation. It's also important to ensure that only those elements that are available visually for interaction are focusable. If an active element is intended to be unavailable in a particular state and it’s hidden from view, it should not be able to receive focus.

Having to tab through invisible controls to reach visible ones is arduous and potentially confusing for sighted users navigating the page by keyboard. Also, screen-...

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