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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: May 19, 2015 6:15AM

> So is applying `aria-hidden="true"` to all the non-modal elements a good thing? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

It is, but unfortunately you have to apply it to many of the other page elements. For example, say you want to insert the modal dialog inline within the page and have aria-hidden true on the dialog but have the aria-hidden false on the body of another ancestor element within the page. Currently this would not work -- that is nesting an aria-hidden false within an aria-hidden true does not expose the content within the aria-hidden false with current screen readers and browsers. In correctly placed or updated aria-hidden attributes can be very problematic to detect without user testing.

Jonathan

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Jonathan Avila 
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SSB BART Group 
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