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

+1
but we should investigate for what roles aria-modal applies other than dialog..

- Stefan

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On 07.11.2014, at 04:24, "james.nurthen@oracle.com<mailto:james.nurthen@oracle.com>" <james.nurthen@oracle.com<mailto:james.nurthen@oracle.com>> wrote:

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<mailto: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.


On Nov 6, 2014, at 12:59 PM, James Nurthen <james.nurthen@oracle.com<mailto: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><mailto: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><mailto: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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