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From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: Apr 4, 2022 4:25PM

"If mouse users are able to interact with content outside the modal (like the header and footer), would that be considered inaccessible since it is not the same experience?"

It will always be impossible to ensure the exact same experience between sighted mouse users and non-sighted screen reader users, but this is accounted for by ensuring proper focus management and the ability to access the same information using an intuitive process.

In this case, the user will be aware that a dialog has opened and that focus is contained within it, and if they wish to leave the dialog they can press Escape or activate the equivalent button for closing or canceling or submitting the dialog to close it and return focus back into the primary page content. This ensures the same level of access to the header and footer content that sighted users would have access to by seeing where it is visually, even though it takes a couple more steps for non-sighted users to do the same. This process is a common one though for dialogs of all tipes across various platforms, so it would not be inaccessible to do this.

Hopefully that makes sense.

All the best,
Bryan



Bryan Garaventa
Principal Accessibility Architect
Level Access, Inc.
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