Only items which have ‘focus’ such as; Dynamic table cells, Anchor text/image links and Form elements can be selected using the yellow bounding box.

Liberate allows developers to instruct which focusable item the gold bounding box will focus on when the page first loads. This is done by setting the initial focus, see the downloads section for an example or read the relevant sections in Liberate’s CDK.

Hints & Tips

• Use number key navigation, this can minimise the amount of key-presses a user is required to make whilst navigating your site.
• Avoid confusing the browser application by coding conflicting focusable elements, such a putting a form element inside a focusable dynamic table cell.
• Do not change the default behaviour of the yellow bounding box. The behaviour must be consistent across all of ntl's interactive services content.
• Make sure that a relevant object is given focus within each page using: