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Re: Accessible Modal

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From: Sean Curtis
Date: May 19, 2015 3:05PM

But not how display: none works, which is a much closer fit for how aria-hidden works.

Cheers,

Sean

On 20 May 2015, at 6:55 am, Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

>> 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?
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> Because this is how CSS visibility:hidden and visibility:visible work.
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> If this method worked for aria-hidden it would make hiding background content when modals appear much more straight forward.
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