well - in 508 and in European 508 equivalent that WCAG provision is applied to web, software and documents. that is why I mentioned that. gregg ---------------------------------- Gregg Vanderheiden gregg@raisingthefloor.org > On Apr 21, 2015, at 10:11 PM, Cynthia Shelly <cyns@microsoft.com> wrote: > > But, WCAG only applies to the web page, not to the browser containing it. > <> > From: Steve Faulkner [mailto:faulkner.steve@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 7:54 AM > To: Gregg Vanderheiden > Cc: Matthew King; Birkir Gunnarsson; W3C WAI Protocols & Formats; Weditors WCAG2ICT > Subject: Re: Is there an html or WCAG definition of "modality" as it relates to keyboard behavior in a modeal dialog? > > > On 20 April 2015 at 08:33, Gregg Vanderheiden <gregg@raisingthefloor.org <mailto:gregg@raisingthefloor.org>> wrote: > GV: Hmmm. the dialog box sounds like a context to me. and moving out of the dialog box using standard navigation commands (arrows or tab-key) would seem to be a ‘change of context due to change of focus” which would be a WCAG SC failure. explicit commands (like hot keys or command key combinations ) would not violate it - but moving focus around in a context should not jump them out of that context. At least that is my take. If you want a ruling you might run this past the committee as a whole. I added the chairs to this email for their information. > > Hi Gregg, > > > If a web page is a context, and moving outside of a web page via the tab key is a change of context, then every web page would fail the WCAG 2.0 criteria as the address bar of browsers (if present) recieves focus after the last focusable element in the page. > > -- > > Regards > > SteveF > HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>
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