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Re: Time-out modal with alertdialog

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Jul 6, 2015 4:10PM

One additional thought.
Do you hide content from all screen readers when the timeout modal
dialog pops up (assuming that it is modal)?
For maximum usability a timeout dialog should be modal and rest of
content hiddn from assistive technology/screen readers.

Set aria-hidden="true" on container containing page content when
dialog content becomes visible (this is easiest to do when dialog
modal content is appended at the end of the dom).




On 7/6/15, Bryan Garaventa < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> That's true, one thing to note though, if the browser is firing a system
> alert and the AT is processing that properly, then it should be interrupting
> speech regardless.
>
> If they change the attributes with role=alert on the container and add the
> dialog container element to that, I'm curious to know what the outcome is
> for them in Firefox for example where this is working correctly.
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