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Re: Accessible Modal

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From: Chris Pearce
Date: May 21, 2015 3:08PM

Thanks everyone for your input, it has been really valuable and good to
know that the solution I've been using is the solution I should be using.

Chris

On 22 May 2015 at 04:46, Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> > But aria-hiddenúlse on the same element will expose content to AT:
> <div hidden (or display:none) aria-hiddenúlse">This content is exposed
> to AT</div>
>
> This seems incorrect to me. From my read of the HTML spec user agents are
> only supposed to expose hidden content to an accessibility API if it is
> referenced by an id such as in the case of aria-labelledby and
> aria-describedby.
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