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High contrast focus style on adminbar front-end search.
joedolson Oct 2, 2026
d33a7fd
Add WHCM focus outline on focused select
joedolson Oct 2, 2026
2ee7813
Change button high contrast outline to 2px
joedolson Oct 3, 2026
50c1e67
All butttons...
joedolson Oct 3, 2026
769fecc
Add high contrast visibility in theme browser
joedolson Oct 3, 2026
2bde0cd
Plugin information tabs focus WHCM
joedolson Oct 3, 2026
8676d5a
Missing comments.
joedolson Oct 3, 2026
f150e26
Remove the obsolete -moz-focusring override
joedolson Oct 4, 2026
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Merge branch 'trunk' into whcm-focus-styles
joedolson Oct 5, 2026
c44f3d6
Set select arrow to white when forced colors active & preferred color…
joedolson Oct 5, 2026
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Merge branch 'whcm-focus-styles' of https://github.com/joedolson/word…
joedolson Oct 5, 2026
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Merge branch 'trunk' into whcm-focus-styles
joedolson Oct 10, 2026
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Merge branch 'trunk' into whcm-focus-styles
joedolson Oct 20, 2026
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Merge branch 'trunk' into whcm-focus-styles
joedolson Oct 23, 2026
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8 changes: 5 additions & 3 deletions src/wp-admin/css/colors/_mixins.scss
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Expand Up @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
0 0 0 var(--wp-admin-border-width-focus, 1.5px) var(--wp-admin-theme-color),
inset 0 0 0 1px tokens.$white;
/* Visible in Windows High Contrast mode */
outline: 1px solid transparent;
outline: 2px solid transparent;
}

&:active {
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border-color: var(--wp-admin-theme-color);
color: var(--wp-admin-theme-color);
box-shadow: 0 0 0 var(--wp-admin-border-width-focus, 1.5px) var(--wp-admin-theme-color);
outline: 1px solid transparent;
/* Visible in Windows High Contrast mode */
outline: 2px solid transparent;
}

&:active {
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border-color: var(--wp-admin-theme-color);
color: tokens.$gray-900;
box-shadow: 0 0 0 var(--wp-admin-border-width-focus, 1.5px) var(--wp-admin-theme-color);
outline: 1px solid transparent;
/* Visible in Windows High Contrast mode */
outline: 2px solid transparent;
}

&:active {
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3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion src/wp-admin/css/common.css
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Expand Up @@ -2947,7 +2947,8 @@ div.action-links {

#plugin-information-tabs a:active,
#plugin-information-tabs a:focus {
outline: none;
/* Only visible in Windows High Contrast mode */
outline: 2px solid transparent;
}

#plugin-information-content {
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15 changes: 8 additions & 7 deletions src/wp-admin/css/forms.css
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Expand Up @@ -359,6 +359,8 @@ input[type="radio"].disabled:checked::before {
border-color: var(--wp-admin-theme-color);
color: #1e1e1e;
box-shadow: 0 0 0 var(--wp-admin-border-width-focus, 1.5px) var(--wp-admin-theme-color);
/* Only visible in Windows High Contrast mode */
outline: 2px solid transparent;
}

.wp-core-ui select:active {
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transform: none;
}

.wp-core-ui select[aria-disabled="true"] {
cursor: default;
@media all and (forced-colors: active) and (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
.wp-core-ui select {
background-image: url(data:image/svg+xml;charset=US-ASCII,%3Csvg%20width%3D%2220%22%20height%3D%2220%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M5%206l5%205%205-5%202%201-7%207-7-7%202-1z%22%20fill%3D%22%23ffffff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E);
}
}

/* Reset Firefox inner outline that appears on :focus. */
/* This ruleset overrides the color change on :focus thus needs to be after select:focus. */
.wp-core-ui select:-moz-focusring {
color: transparent;
text-shadow: 0 0 0 #0a4b78;
.wp-core-ui select[aria-disabled="true"] {
cursor: default;
}

/* Remove background focus style from IE11 while keeping focus style available on option elements. */
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3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion src/wp-admin/css/themes.css
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Expand Up @@ -502,7 +502,8 @@ body.js .theme-browser.search-loading {
.theme-overlay .theme-header .right:focus,
.theme-overlay .theme-header .left:focus {
box-shadow: none;
outline: none;
/* Only visible in Windows High Contrast mode */
outline: 2px solid transparent;
}

.theme-overlay .theme-header .left.disabled,
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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions src/wp-includes/css/admin-bar.css
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Expand Up @@ -683,6 +683,8 @@ html:lang(he-il) .rtl #wpadminbar * {
background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);
cursor: text;
border: 0;
/* Only visible in Windows High Contrast mode */
outline: 2px solid transparent;
}

#wpadminbar #adminbarsearch .adminbar-button {
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