Products - Discover Our Full Range Of Furniture And Homeware - IKEA UK

Soft Furnishing - Home Textiles - IKEA UK

personalise

Lighting – Wall & Celling Lights for Every Room in Your Home - IKEA UK

Pet Accessories - Pet Furniture - Pet Supplies - IKEA UK

Outdoor Living - Garden Products - Outdoor Products - IKEA UK

Fitted Kitchens - Discover Our Customisable Kitchens - IKEA UK

Decoration - Home Decor - Room Decor - IKEA UK

Explore Our Full Range of Services - IKEA UK

DUKTIG Series - IKEA UK

All controls on the page - including links, buttons, and fields - should show when 
they have been selected by the keyboard.

You can confirm this yourself by loading a webpage and using the Tab key to navigate 
through it. Anything you can select should alter its appearance when selected. 
For example, a text field might change color, or have a distinctive border applied. 

This is default behavior for all standard web controls, and so if this issue is appearing
it is because this default behavior has been disabled. Or alternatively, if you have written
your own custom controls, these will need styling to support focus states.

## How to fix

Links and form controls typically define an `outline` CSS style, which ensures
they are highlighted automatically, for example:

```css
input:focus (outline: 2px solid red);
``` 

If you choose to override or disable the default `outline`, you should specify an accessible 
alternative, such as a border or background color.

### Elements appear to change in the browser

Focus states should be defined in CSS alone, and not require JavaScript to work.

Try disabling JavaScript on the page, and see if focus is still visible. If it not,
then the focus state won't work with assistive technologies that don't have a physical
keyboard, e.g. mobile phones.

Some more unusual means of implementing a focus state cannot be detected or measured
automatically. These include:

* Focus implemented via pseudo-elements - such as `::after` or `::before`.
* Focus using `:focus-within` (JavaScript current provides no way to access these).
* Focus cascaded to child elements, e.g. a `<span>` inside an `<a>` tag. We detect
  some of these cases, but there are variations that we cannot detect.

Currently, there is no practical way to assess these focus states automatically.

### Unexpected elements are focusable

You may be surprised to see tags like `<div>` or `<span>` being shown as focusable.
If an element has a `tabindex` of 0 or higher, it becomes focusable. Any HTML tag can be made 
focusable in this way, this is so that custom controls (e.g. your own drop-down menus, or 
sliders) can support keyboard navigation. [Learn more about tabindex on MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_attributes/tabindex).

## Further reading

* [WCAG 2.4.7](https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understanding/focus-visible.html)

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March 2026

February 2026

Ikea

Title / URL	Issues
Products - Discover Our Full Range Of Furniture And Homeware - IKEA UKwww.ikea.com/gb/en/cat/products-products/	24
Soft Furnishing - Home Textiles - IKEA UKwww.ikea.com/gb/en/cat/textiles-tl001/	6
personalisewww.ikea.com/gb/en/gift-cards/personalise/	5
Lighting – Wall & Celling Lights for Every Room in Your Home - IKEA UKwww.ikea.com/gb/en/cat/lighting-li001/	5
Pet Accessories - Pet Furniture - Pet Supplies - IKEA UKwww.ikea.com/gb/en/cat/pet-products-pt001/	4
Outdoor Living - Garden Products - Outdoor Products - IKEA UKwww.ikea.com/gb/en/cat/outdoor-living-od001/	3
Fitted Kitchens - Discover Our Customisable Kitchens - IKEA UKwww.ikea.com/gb/en/rooms/kitchen/	2
Decoration - Home Decor - Room Decor - IKEA UKwww.ikea.com/gb/en/cat/decoration-de001/	2
Explore Our Full Range of Services - IKEA UKwww.ikea.com/gb/en/customer-service/services/	1
DUKTIG Series - IKEA UKwww.ikea.com/gb/en/cat/duktig-series-11674/	1

Ensure controls change appearance when they are selected

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