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Re: aria-hidden for content outside modal dialog?

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Oct 16, 2015 6:20PM

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

Steve, thanks for the clarification. This particular issue could still cause problems for users of assistive technology if strict focus management techniques are not used as my initial tests show inconsistent results with screen readers announcing the proper link text when aria-hidden is set to true on a link and you tab to it.

Best Regards,

Jonathan

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-----Original Message-----
From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Steve Faulkner
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 6:01 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] aria-hidden for content outside modal dialog?

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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