[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #28599: Better Visual Focus Indication in Admin Menu

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#28599: Better Visual Focus Indication in Admin Menu
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 Reporter:                |       Owner:
  AccessibleJoe           |      Status:  new
     Type:  defect (bug)  |   Milestone:  Future Release
 Priority:  normal        |     Version:  3.8
Component:  General       |  Resolution:
 Severity:  normal        |     Focuses:  ui, accessibility, administration
 Keywords:                |
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Comment (by usability.idealist):

 Replying to [comment:28 afercia]:

 > I agree with @helen that design-wise, what @michaelarestad proposed is
 better than an outline. Besides accessibility considerations, I see a
 couple of potential issues with the border on the left, see screenshot
 below, it's just a quick in-browser editing, please don't focus on colors:

 dito. maybe using a variation of my initial "bracketing" - ie. adding a
 left and right border, high-contrast - would work better? Not sure if
 people will actually recognize the border as a visual focus inside the
 submenu.

 > - shifting the item text on the right could break the text in 2 lines
 just when focused; we can't predict the item text length and having a line
 of text that breaks in 2 lines when focused looks pretty bad

 The line-break already happens as soon as you use non-english languages.
 Last week I wrote a plugin as part of a job and added i18n - I always use
 English for i18n reasons, no matter that it aint my native language - and
 as soon as the German translation was in, several menu items broke into
 two lines.

 Which I do '''not''' consider as an issue. As long as the actual submenu
 works, and does not act up like it did right after HoverIntent made it
 into the Admin Menu, all is well.

 cu, w0lf.

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