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From: Sarah Jevnikar
Date: Apr 5, 2018 1:33PM

Hi there,
From a non-technical end-user perspective, trapping the focus seems to make sense to me, so long as the alert is read and reviewable, and the buttons are clearly labelled so a screen reader user in particular won't suddenly hear nothing and not know why

Sarah Jevnikar

Accessibility Consultant

Digital Echidna

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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Lovely, Brian via WebAIM-Forum
Sent: April 5, 2018 1:38 PM
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Subject: [WebAIM] Trapping focus in an alert

We have an alert that tells the user they have so many minutes remaining in their session. The alert also contains two buttons, one to continue and one to sign out. The container has a role of alert, and focus is shifted to the container when the alert is displayed. My question is whether or not to trap focus in the alert so the user cannot navigate away until they have activated one of the buttons.
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