WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

Re: Accessible Modal

for

From: Steve Faulkner
Date: May 19, 2015 3:40PM

related firefox implementation bug
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id”5194
Bug 945194 - Add accessibles that have aria-hidden="false" to the tree even
if HTML5 hidden or CSS hidden or display: none


--

Regards

SteveF
HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>;

On 19 May 2015 at 22:17, Sailesh Panchang < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Not sure why that should apply in this case. What's the basis for
> expecting the CSS paradigm to be applied to WAI-ARIA?
> Anything in the ARIA specs to this effect?
> Moreover, the ARIA specs for aria-hidden specifically indicates that
> aria-false is as good as not setting the attribute at all.
> Sailesh
>
>
> On 5/19/15, 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?
> >
> > 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
> >
> > --
> > Jonathan Avila
> > Chief Accessibility Officer
> > SSB BART Group
> > <EMAIL REMOVED>
> > Phone 703.637.8957
> > Follow us: Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn | Blog | Newsletter
> >
> >
> >