I don’t believe that WCAG speaks to this level of implementation. The closest it comes to talking about the specific design of a UI would be its “consistency” requirements and these are pretty narrowly circumscribed as to requirements (though there are lots of advisory techniques that suggest more where appropriate. )
gregg
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Gregg Vanderheiden
gregg@raisingthefloor.org
> On Apr 16, 2015, at 12:16 PM, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 16 April 2015 at 01:46, Matthew King <mattking@us.ibm.com <mailto:mattking@us.ibm.com>> wrote:
> I strongly support the idea of an "author SHOULD" or even an "author MUST" in the language of the new modal property to address this issue.
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> I thought the discussion was around whether the behaviour is a WCAG violation?
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> Regards
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> SteveF
> HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>