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Re: what roles will make a pop up dialog work

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From: Jesse Hausler
Date: Oct 8, 2014 8:06PM

Are you saying that a div like this.. .

<div aria-hidden="false" style="displayNoneStyle">
stuff
</div>

Will be readable with jaws? that's silly.

display:none should display:none...

Plus isn't aria-hidden implied to be false by default?

On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 3:30 AM, Nancy Johnson < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 'When using aria-hidden="false" on a container that includes style="none",
> JAWS will now expose this to users even though it is
> visually hidden from sighted users.''
>
> 'Apologies, this is confirmed in IE11 using JAWS15, even though it is not
> supported elsewhere that I'm aware of.'
>
> That is too bad as we might have added it to legacy sites that we developed
> and maintain. There is no funding to check and change. I hope it doesn't
> change in other browsers.
>
> Nancy
>
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Bryan Garaventa <
> <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> > Apologies, this is confirmed in IE11 using JAWS15, even though it is not
> > supported elsewhere that I'm aware of.
> >
> >