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Re: Accessible Modal

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: May 19, 2015 2:55PM


> What is the rationale for expecting the child element to be exposed to AT when the aria-hidden on the parent is true? Why should the ancestor's aria-hidden value be disregarded?

Because this is how CSS visibility:hidden and visibility:visible work.

If this method worked for aria-hidden it would make hiding background content when modals appear much more straight forward.

Jonathan

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