The Content for Everyone website is designed so that the focus indicator is visible. If you press the tab key while you’re on this page, the focus will move from link to link, starting at what is visually at the top left going left to right across each row of the page down to the last link in the bottom right of the footer.
For those who navigate via keyboard and are engaging with the site visually, the visible focus indicator is crucial to understanding where they are on the site and which item they can interact with. If you’ve never navigated a site with keyboard, this page can be a good example.
Like the header and footer of this site, the following three links also have a visible focus indicator
Now, we’ll remove the focus indicator and you’ll understand how difficult knowing where you are is when the indicator isn’t visible.
The following three links don’t have a visible focus indicator.
We hope this single example helps you understand more about the need for visible focus indicators. We encourage you to use a keyboard to navigate some of your favorite sites so you can further understand what it’s like to use only a keyboard and not another pointer device.