@aria-modal would not do the focus management and event silencing that @inert would, but a new @aria-inert attr would not be able to do that either.
> On Nov 6, 2014, at 12:59 PM, James Nurthen <james.nurthen@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> In that case I see no need for aria-inert.
>
> Are there other use cases that ACTION-1347 would not address?
>
> Regards,
> James
>
>
>> On 11/6/2014 12:52 PM, James Craig wrote:
>>> On Nov 6, 2014, at 12:44 PM, Dominic Mazzoni <dmazzoni@google.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Agreed, I'd love to see @aria-modal to go with role=dialog. Obviously the html5 dialog element is even better, but not all browsers support that yet.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 12:40 PM, James Nurthen <james.nurthen@oracle.com> wrote:
>>> I see the need for a developer to state whether their dialogs are modal or not.
>> We have a 1.1 action for that.
>>
>> ACTION-1347: Add an attribute for differentiating modal vs non-modal dialogs/menus/etc. (possibly aria-modal)
>> https://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/Group/track/actions/1347
>>
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