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Re: Accessible Modal Dialog Review

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From: YOUNGV5
Date: Jun 22, 2011 11:39AM

You can prevent up and down arrowing through content if you set the role
parameter to something like "application" or "dialog". By default I have
the role set to "document" because switching cursor mode on screen reader
users seems to cause issues and often there is non-focusable content that
needs to be read. This is the best solution I could come up with for this
current state of affairs.

Vincent Young
User Experience, Web Accessibility Specialist
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Date:
06/22/2011 01:14 PM
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Re: [WebAIM] Accessible Modal Dialog Review
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I would love to have an accessible modal. This one does a good job of
keeping the keyboard only user out of the underlying page, but the screen
reader user can still use the arrow keys and find his/her way to the
entire
page.

I don't know of anyway to keep the SR user out?

Using Jaws 12 and FireFox 4
.

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 1:09 PM, < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I've been working on an accessible modal dialog jQuery widget. I think
> I've gotten it to the point where I'd like to get some feedback from the
> community. I'd really appreciate any comments/suggestions/questions you
> may have. When all is said and done, I'd like to truly turn this into a
> full blown jQuery widget and make it available to the public.
>
> Link to modal dialog:
> http://webhipster.com/testing/accessibility/modal-dialog-latest/
>
> Thanks.
>
> Best,
> Vinnie
>
> Vincent Young
> User Experience, Web Accessibility Specialist
> Nationwide Corporate Marketing
> Nationwide®
> o | 614·677·5094
> c | 614·607·3400
> e | <EMAIL REMOVED>
>