Closing a dialog by click outside of the dialog box (Comment 419) from mandana@schoener.at on 2013-04-22 (public-pfwg-comments@w3.org from April to June 2013)

From: <mandana@schoener.at>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 23:41:27 +0000
To: PFWG Public Comments <public-pfwg-comments@w3.org>
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Document: WAI-ARIA 1.0 Authoring Practices Working Draft 7 March 2013
Part: 3.3. Making a Dialog Modal (modal_dialog)

I have sometimes seen modal dialogs, which can (additionally to a close button) be closed by clicking outside of the the dialog box.
To me this seems very usable, because i don't have to point the mouse to the button, but can quickly close the dialog by clicking "anywhere".
Is this really so problematic regarding accessibility, that this feature is not mentioned in the Best Practices?

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