Success Criterion 1.4.13
Conformance level AA

Focus-Triggered Popover That Steals or Dumps Keyboard Focus

1.4.13 — Content on Hover or Focus

Scenario

Setting

A streaming music app's search results

What’s wrong

Focus-triggered popovers that steal or dump focus, closing themselves (interacts with 3.2.1).

Example

Open a streaming music app's search results and this is what you'll see: focus-triggered popovers that steal or dump focus, closing themselves (interacts with 3.2.1).

Why it matters

Screen-magnifier users, people with motor tremors, and keyboard-only users of tooltips/menus. On a streaming music app's search results specifically, they can't perceive the control's boundary or state.

How to test

Focus a control that triggers a popover: if it steals focus unexpectedly or the popover closes itself and dumps focus elsewhere, it fails.

How to fix

Hover/focus-triggered content must stay visible until dismissed, be dismissible with Esc without moving pointer/focus, and remain when the pointer moves onto it.

Outcome

Fixed, a visitor to a streaming music app's search results can see the control's boundary and current state, specifically for the “Focus-Triggered Popover That Steals or Dumps Keyboard Focus” issue on a streaming music app's search results.

Who is affected

Screen-magnifier users, people with motor tremors, and keyboard-only users of tooltips/menus.

Learn more

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