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

Sounds like we agree that aria-inert should be dropped. Anyone disagree?


Rich Schwerdtfeger



From:	"james.nurthen@oracle.com" <james.nurthen@oracle.com>
To:	James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>
Cc:	Dominic Mazzoni <dmazzoni@google.com>, W3C WAI Protocols &
            Formats <public-pfwg@w3.org>
Date:	11/06/2014 09:24 PM
Subject:	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.


      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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            Regards, James


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