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Re: aria-hidden for content outside modal dialog?

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From: Steve Faulkner
Date: Oct 16, 2015 4:00PM

On 16 October 2015 at 22:05, Sailesh Panchang < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> 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?
>

It is not the case that it should be ignored when applied to a focusable
element, but that the:

Element should not be exposed, unless it is focused or fires an
> accessibility event.


Core Accessibility API Mappings 1.1
http://www.w3.org/TR/core-aam-1.1/#details-id-94



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