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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Feb 8, 2017 10:47AM

> As I said role="dialog" takes NVDA user to focus mode directly. Developer can remove the role dialog and replace with role="document". With this NVDA does not take the user to focus mode, it will stay in browse mode.

I would generally not recommend using role of document instead of dialog or use it within dialogs. Role of region could be used with an aria-label or aria-labelledby as an alternative if dialog is misbehaving with some assistive technology.

Jonathan

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-----Original Message-----
From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Rakesh P
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2017 7:48 AM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Dialog boxeson NVDA

Yes Surendra, As I said role="dialog" takes NVDA user to focus mode directly. Developer can remove the role dialog and replace with role="document". With this NVDA does not take the user to focus mode, it will stay in browse mode.

If you are talking about the screen reader reading hidden / invisible text,, with the use of aria-hidden property the hidden content can be made ignorred by screen reader. aria-hidden="true".

Hope this helps.

On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 3:31 PM, Surendra < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Now,I was just wondering if there's any fix for that.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On
> Behalf Of Rakesh P
> Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2017 2:54 PM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Dialog boxeson NVDA
>
> If screen reader is reading some hidden text while navigating through
> the modal that does not make sense to the user, I will definitely
> consider as an accessibility violation.
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 2:28 PM, Surendra
> < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> wrote:
>
> > Thank you, Rakesh!
> >
> > I was taking it as an accessibility bug, because NVDA reads A hidden
> > text 'Section' in case navigating through the modal dialog with Tab
> > key. Isn't it an unwanted announcement?
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On
> > Behalf Of Rakesh P
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2017 1:45 PM
> > To: WebAIM Discussion List
> > Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Dialog boxeson NVDA
> >
> > Hi Surendra,
> >
> >
> > That is not an accessibility bug. Since it is a modal dialog
> > developers
> use
> > role dialog. This causes NVDA to shift to the focus mode.
> >
> > It is expected that user need to press insert + space bar to shift
> > back
> to
> > browse mode and read the content.
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 12:56 PM, Surendra
> > < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I hope many of us have been using NVDA for long. I do not use it
> > > very
> > often
> > > personally, unless there arises any serious need. Like in my
> > > office, we have to do testing in all possible scenarios on all
> > > possible platforms using
> > all
> > > screen readers including NVDA. Now, many a times, I get stuck on
> websites
> > > with dialog boxes and pop-ups. Suppose there is a 'Table of Contents'
> > > button
> > > on a page, hitting of which brings up a dialog box having table
> contents.
> > > But NVDA would not read the same until Insert+SpaceBar is pressed.
> > Should I
> > > treat this as an accessibility issue? Because, I've seen some
> > > websites wherein focus directly moves to the rellavant area and we
> > > can easily navigate through the page with arrow keys, as we do in browse mode.
> > >
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