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

I'd put it on window so it inherits to alertdialog too.
But other than that +1


On 11/7/2014 9:24 AM, Alexander Surkov wrote:
> I'm up for role="dialog" + aria-modal="true" approach.
>
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Richard Schwerdtfeger 
> <schwer@us.ibm.com <mailto:schwer@us.ibm.com>> wrote:
>
>     Sounds like we agree that aria-inert should be dropped. Anyone
>     disagree?
>
>
>     Rich Schwerdtfeger
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>     09:24:15 PM---I agree. While I think event silencing and
>     foc"james.nurthen@oracle.com <mailto:james.nurthen@oracle.com>"
>     ---11/06/2014 09:24:15 PM---I agree. While I think event silencing
>     and focus management are a useful feature they are not approp
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>     From: "james.nurthen@oracle.com <mailto:james.nurthen@oracle.com>"
>     <james.nurthen@oracle.com <mailto:james.nurthen@oracle.com>>
>     To: James Craig <jcraig@apple.com <mailto:jcraig@apple.com>>
>     Cc: Dominic Mazzoni <dmazzoni@google.com
>     <mailto:dmazzoni@google.com>>, W3C WAI Protocols & Formats
>     <public-pfwg@w3.org <mailto:public-pfwg@w3.org>>
>     Date: 11/06/2014 09:24 PM
>     Subject: Re: aria-modal (Was: @inert and @aria-inert for
>     disambiguating modal states)
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>     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:
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>         @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_ <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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