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From: Isabel Holdsworth
Date: Jun 21, 2019 8:56AM

Good points Glen.

What's the best way to make it easy to move around pages that contain
non-modal dialogs that may be quite lengthy, and to give screenreader
users the best chance of understanding where abouts they are on the
page and how to quickly move to somewhere else?

As an advanced screenreader user, I have all sorts of tricks that I
use to move around text. But some of our candidates are children, and
we want to make their experience of taking a test as easy and
stress-free as possible.

Cheers, Isabel

On 21/06/2019, glen walker < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Yes, I understand the constraint of being limited to one tab in the browser
> but I wanted to toss out the other options in case someone else was
> implementing something similar but didn't have that constraint.
>
> While a dialog is often considered a modal thing, I don't think we should
> be that restrictive. Perhaps I've been a software engineer for too many
> decades but I don't limit myself in thinking that a dialog must be modal.
> Non-modals can be very helpful in appropriate situations. I think the key
> is to make it easy to move between all the non-modals and the main page.
> > > > >