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From: Peter Weil
Date: Dec 7, 2022 11:11AM

Regarding the question of which browsers support aria-modal:

https://caniuse.com/?search=aria-modal

There is also some discussion of aria-modal in Scott O'Hara's excellent update on the dialog element:

https://www.scottohara.me/blog/2019/03/05/open-dialog.html

> On Dec 7, 2022, at 11:50 AM, Brooks Newton < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> 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
>>
>>
>>