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Re: Trapping focus in an alert

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From: Steve Faulkner
Date: Apr 6, 2018 4:58PM

Hi Brian, 2 suggestions
Use role=alertdialog as the alert role is not for dialogs and does not
convey the appropriate semantics.

Follow the Alert dialog design pattern

https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices/#alertdialog

On Thursday, 5 April 2018, Lovely, Brian via WebAIM-Forum <
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> 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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