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From: England, Kristina
Date: Jul 5, 2017 5:06AM

Hi there,

I'm currently ADA testing an online system for another team and there are several places where there are popup windows. Normally, I would expect to keyboard through the items in the popup window once it announces as a popup window but when I tab through, I'm unable to press the enter key to select an option. I realized after a couple tests that the popup window actually needs form mode enabled (though there are no form fields). I marked that as an issue, but wanted to confirm - if there is a list of items in a popup window (basically menu items), would enabling forms mode be intuitive or am I accurate in assuming it wouldn't be?

Kristina England
University Information Technology Services
UMass Office of the President
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