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- Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 19:41:47 +0000
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HTML-ISSUE-162 (modal ): Add a modal attribute to html5 to indicate a modal segment of the DOM (modal dialog) [HTML 5 spec]
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/162
Raised by: Steve Faulkner
On product: HTML 5 spec
Issue:
from big http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10645
html5 does not currently specify a mechanism to indicate that a segment of the
DOM is modal.
Modal dialogs are common in many desktop and web UI toolkits. It is currently
possible to create modal dialog behaviour using CSS, Javascript, and WAI-ARIA.
It is not, however, easy to create a robust modal dialog using these compatible
technologies.
Proposal:
(Normative)
1. Add a modal element or attribute ("modal") to the html5 specification.
2. When a modal is present in the DOM UAs must treat the modal and its children
as a modal segment of the DOM.
2.1 UAs must constrain input / interaction events (e.g. keyboard and mouse) to
the modal and its children.
2.2 UAs must map only the modal and its children to the accessibility tree.
3. If focus has not been explicitly set to a child of the modal, UAs must set
focus to the first focusable child of the modal.
(Informative)
4. Authors must provide a device agnostic mechanism to dismiss the modal.
5. Authors should return focus to the element from which the modal was
activated upon its dismissal.
Resources:
Definition
Modal window - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_window
Implementations of web UI modal dialogs
Cutting Edge: Modal Dialog Boxes with AJAX
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc164247.aspx
Drupal 7 Overlay (core module to display administrative pages).
http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/modules--overlay--overlay.module/7
jQuery UI - Dialog Demos & Documentation
http://jqueryui.com/demos/dialog/
YUI 2: SimpleDialog
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/container/simpledialog/
Best practices for accessible modal dialogs
WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices 1.0: 3.3 Making a Dialog Modal
http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices/#dialog_modal
DHTML Style Guide | dev.aol.com: 8. Dialog (Modal)
http://dev.aol.com/dhtml_style_guide#dialogmodal
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