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From: Kian Badie
Date: Apr 5, 2022 3:11PM

Hello,

That makes complete sense. So if I am understanding you correctly, it is ok
to have a couple of extra steps of closing the dialog for non-sighted users
to access the header/footer because the process is intuitive. Is that
correct?

If that is correct, I think that answers all the questions I currently
have. Thank you very much for the very educational and insightful
conversation! It helped a lot.

Thank you,
Kian Badie

On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 3:25 PM Bryan Garaventa via WebAIM-Forum <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> "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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> 415.624.2709 (o)
> www.LevelAccess.com
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