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Re: aria-hidden for content outside modal dialog?

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From: Sailesh Panchang
Date: Oct 16, 2015 3:05PM

Jonathan,
You wrote: As a side note -- according to the ARIA spec aria-hidden
of true should be ignored by user agents and assistive technology when
applied to focusable content.
Please can you point me to the specs where it says so?
I do not see this in
http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.1/#aria-hidden

Thanks,
Sailesh Panchang


On 10/16/15, Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> Therefore it is best to use aria-hidden="true" on all page content outside
>> of a modal dialog.
>> There have been discussions on whether it is sufficient to lock the
>> keyboard navigation within the dialog, and to clearly mark it as such for
>> assistive technologies (use the dialog role and an accessible name
>> provided through aria-label or aria-labelledby).
>
> As a side note -- according to the ARIA spec aria-hidden of true should be
> ignored by user agents and assistive technology when applied to focusable
> content. So even though aria-hidden should be applied to everything behind
> the modal, in theory it won't really be hiding the focusable content of the
> page from AT.
>
> Jonathan
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