290454 - Mozilla should not display focus rectangles on images with links when clicked.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 418521

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050401
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050401

Current release versions of Mozilla do not display a focus rectangle around
links when you click them with the mouse. As of version 1.8 this seems to have
started happening. These rectangles cause our carefully crafted HTML to loose
some of it's functionallity. They seem completely unneccacary for people using
the mouse to click links. I can see that if you are using the keyboard they have
a place but not with a mouse.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the provided URL
2. Click any of the 'buttons' at the top of the screen.
3. The image clicked on developes a dotted link arround it.

If you repeat this in Mozilla 1.7.x you will not see this rectangle. We have
JavaScript code in place that makes the buttons 'bounce' when clicked as can be
seen in 1.7.x. This effect is ruinned by the changes in 1.8.x

Actual Results:  
The dotted line appears

Expected Results:  
The dotted line should not appear

Comment 1

[Nigel McFarlane]

There's no official 1.8 MAS. To get attention for this bug, test on
Firefox nightlies, change the bug product to Core and pick a suitable
rendering component.

- N.

Comment 2

[Not interested in Mozilla any more]

Changing product to core

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> Current release versions of Mozilla do not display a focus rectangle around
> links when you click them with the mouse.

Actually, they do, in general.  Try the links on this bug page.  Cases when they
don't are bugs.

> This effect is ruinned by the changes in 1.8.x

You can style the outlines off using the -moz-outline style if they really
interfere with the rendering... note that there may be accessibility issues with
that, of course.

Not a view rendering issue and probably invalid given the accessibility
considerations that led us to have focus outlines on links in the first place.