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@adamwathan adamwathan commented Jul 26, 2021

Firefox 89 introduced new focus styles for form controls that are a big improvement in terms of accessibility, but by default it doesn't carry those improvements over to links, which still have a very subtle dotted border.

All this does is replace this old legacy rule from normalize.css:

:-moz-focusring {
	outline: 1px dotted ButtonText;
}

...with this:

:-moz-focusring {
	outline: auto;
}

The Firefox team is considering just doing this by default, as you can read here:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1708244#c3

Before:

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After:

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Before on dark backgrounds:

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After on dark backgrounds:

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@adamwathan adamwathan force-pushed the fix-firefox-focus-styles- branch from efa9260 to 694f5fc Compare July 31, 2021 10:47
@adamwathan adamwathan merged commit 723e8d4 into master Jul 31, 2021
@adamwathan adamwathan deleted the fix-firefox-focus-styles- branch July 31, 2021 11:10
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