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Re: in a modal dialog can the tab focus go to the browser UI?

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From: Lucy Greco
Date: Jan 31, 2017 3:22PM

hello:
i think it is a best practice to restrict focus to the dialog if the
dialog has actions that need to happen before the user can move on. the
user will become confused if they are interacting with a dialog and then
the contents out side the dialog start coming up. also i have seen the
behavior wear the dialog comes up but the screen reader is focused on the
contents behind the dialog visually so that is an other reason to restrict
focus. This situation is vary bad if the screen reader user is trying to
get support and the sited person does not know they are on hidden
content.lastly the one point no one has made is that once the user is done
in the dialog you must be sure to bring them back to the write place i.e.
wear they initiated the dialog or on the write place of the new page if a
new page is generated from the dialog.

Lucia Greco
Web Accessibility Evangelist
IST - Architecture, Platforms, and Integration
University of California, Berkeley
(510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
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