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Re: Fourth rule of aria > aria-hidden

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Jan 22, 2018 5:46AM

On 22/01/2018 12:45, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
> The rule, in essence, says: you don't want an AT user setting focus to
> "nothing", as they're left wondering what they just set focus to. If
> it's aria-hidden (or contained inside an aria-hidden container), but
> received focus, it's an empty step in the focus cycle.
>
> Nobody dies when this happens, to be clear. And the "rules" of using
> ARIA are more good practice maxims, not hard failures.
>
> IF you can justify why something still receives keyboard focus but isn't
> announced at all to AT users, cool.

At that point, you may even consider adding some SR only text to the
page that explains what's going on, before the user encounters those
"focusable but unannounced" controls, mind.

P
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