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Re: Non-modal window after time delay

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Jun 8, 2017 10:31AM

If you go the route of automatically moving the focus to the dialog
when it is displayed, it should have a role of dialog.
If you, instead, decide to let the user know something is now visible
on the page without moving the focus, I would recommend role="region"
over rol="dialog".
A region is an ARIA landmark and can easily be discovered. And if you
display non-modular content on the page it isn't really a dialog,
especially when you don't move focus to it.
But, honestly, either is fine, we are getting into awfully hair
splitting territory here. ;)




On 6/8/17, Fernand van Olphen < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Detlev, JP, Birkir: thanks for the response. Much appreciated!
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> @Birkir: you say the dialog should have a role="region". Not role="dialog" ?
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> - Fernand
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