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Re: Time-out modal with alertdialog

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From: Maraikayar Prem Nawaz
Date: Jul 6, 2015 10:27PM

Hope you also plan to provide an option to increase the session timeout
limit(Level A)
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-WCAG20-20081211/#time-limits-required-behaviors
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-WCAG20-20081211/#time-limits-required-behaviors>;

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 3:40 AM, Birkir R. Gunnarsson <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >
> >