Focusgroup Tests

Chrome 150 has landed support for focusgroup, a feature proposed by Open-UI and not yet in WHATWG HTML as anything more than a feature request. Open-UI has outsized representation from Google and Microsoft folks, so it’s no surprise Chrome would implement it first. “FOCUS!” by Metro Centric, CC BY 2.0; cropped, skewed, and desaturated. Open-UI has a handy focusgroup explainer, which is the only place (inside or outside of a spec) to understand how to use it and what it’s meant to do. Which means this is your best opportunity to play with it before it gets into a spec. To hopefully make that easier, I’ve created a series of very basic demos using the properties outlined in the explainer. Demos The effort has started with the composite (excepting toolbar) ARIA widgets listbox, menu, menubar, radiogroup, tablist, and toolbar. I’ve linked to the ARIA spec instead of APG. These map to specific behaviors, based on APG’s keyboard guidance. There is no scripting in any of these demos. The…