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From: Brooks Newton
Date: Dec 7, 2022 10:50AM

Thanks for that, Steve. Seems like a missed opportunity to empower user
agents to take on some of the "heavy lifting" developers have to do to
make content accessible. Is MDN the authoritative source for questions
about how markup should work in user agents? Anyone from MDN on this
thread?

Brooks

On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 11:35 AM Steve Green < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> According to the MDN website, the aria-modal="true" attribute is not
> supposed to do that. They say "Setting aria-modal="true" on dialog and
> alertdialog role containers indicates the presence of a "modal" element to
> users of assistive technology, but does not actually make the element
> modal. The features that make the element actually modal must be
> implemented by the developer."
>
>
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA/Attributes/aria-modal
>
> Steve Green
> Managing Director
> Test Partners Ltd
>
>
>