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

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From: chaals
Date: Feb 1, 2017 3:19AM

Note also that this is a current issue for the HTML spec: https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/773

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31.01.2017, 23:23, "Lucy Greco" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >:
> 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
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> On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 10:27 AM, JP Jamous < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
>>  Answers below.
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