Re: aria-modal (Was: @inert and @aria-inert for disambiguating modal states)

I agree. While I think event silencing and focus management are a useful feature they are not appropriate for an aria- attribute. 
As far as I can see aria-modal solves the problem at hand and I see no reason to have an aria-inert. 


> On Nov 6, 2014, at 6:36 PM, James Craig <jcraig@apple.com> wrote:
> 
> @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.
> 
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>> 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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