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Re: Dialog semantics and aria?

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From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: Apr 25, 2014 12:56PM

True, there are some other considerations to keep in mind as well though.

If you use role=dialog or role=alertdialog or role=application, any content
marked up as such will only appear on one line in the main document within
Browse Mode when using NVDA, which may not be desirable in all cases as a
general practice for providing easily readable content.

E.G You arrow down, and you hear "application", arrow down again, and you
are past the application region. You have to press enter on it to access the
content within the application region if you want to read its content. This
also means you can't quickly jump to form fields that are included within
such regions, because the quick navigation keys don't work. The same
behavior is true for the roles dialog and alertdialog, which then requires
careful focus handling to manage correctly as a result.