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From: Patrick Dunphy
Date: Aug 12, 2010 10:03AM

Hi Steve..

I've not used this myself but having just used the demo's using only my
keyboard to navigate, it appears to work just fine.

http://wiki.github.com/fnagel/jQuery-Accessible-RIA/lightbox

Hope this helps.

-PD

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Steven Henderson <
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> I've been using a couple of modal scripts (mainly lightbox and shadowbox)
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> provide a generic popup for everything from images and video to inline
> content, and am finding them a nightmare to use without a pointer device.
> Neither script sets focus on the modal window or elements within it when
> active, effectively leaving the user with the modal window sitting in the
> front of screen and obscuring the page beneath ... simply ridiculous.
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> Anybody familiar with modifying these scripts? Or have a truely accessible
> alternative?
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> Regards,
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> Steven
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