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Re: Modal says "blank" to NVDA

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Mar 21, 2020 6:36PM

On 21/03/2020 23:06, Brandon Keith Biggs wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am on a website and their dialog looks "blank" to NVDA, but when I hit
> tab, I am able to move through and edit the fields, but when I enter into
> brows mode, NVDA just says "blank".
>
> Do you know what may be going on?

I'll have a wild guess and say the site mistakenly set
aria-hidden="true" to the modal / the whole page, accidentally hiding
the modal itself (rather than just hiding the underlying page)?

P
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