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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: May 17, 2016 1:38PM

On 17/05/2016 20:21, Tim Harshbarger wrote:
> When I looked at SC 2.4.3, I noticed that the 3rd example mentions a modal dialog where focus is placed on the first interactable element. If that isn't a violation, then why would be doing the same on a web page be a violation?

Because a modal dialog is different from a page, and it has
established/expected patterns from its native equivalents (for instance
even if you fire up a browser-native alert() you'll see that focus is
actually placed on the OK control in most cases).

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