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Overview

Additional content that appears and disappears in coordination with keyboard focus or pointer hover often leads to accessibility issues. Reasons for such issues include:

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Where receiving and then removing pointer hover or keyboard focus triggers additional content to become visible and then hidden, the following should apply:

Dismissible

A mechanism is available to dismiss the additional content without moving pointer hover or keyboard focus, unless the additional content communicates an input error or does not obscure or replace other content;

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Exception: The visual presentation of the additional content is controlled by the user agent and is not modified by the author.

Please see more detailed information on how to comply with this guideline.

WCAG Related

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Guidelines

1.4.13 Content on Hover or Focus