Re: JAWS lists and modal windows

Thank you all for the discussion, this is helping.
Btw, JAWS support tells us to use JAWS 2022, but I'm not sure if any of us
here have that version. JAWS 2021 appears to be our standard.

On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 10:39 AM Peter Weil <peter.weil@wisc.edu> wrote:

> From what I can tell, Voiceover/Safari support for aria-modal=“true” is
> still lacking. And general screenreader support for
> aria-haspopup=“dialog” is still poor. Until this situation changes, I’d
> probably refrain from using either one of these. The aria practices
> examples are only to show you some patterns you can use that meet the ARIA
> specification. That’s an important distinction.
>
> Peter
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> On Mar 30, 2022, at 9:12 AM, Bristow, Alan <Alan.Bristow@elections.ca>
> wrote:
>
> > *The difference from the example by **Scott O’hara **is that it uses *
> *aria-modal=”true”** with **role=”dialog”*
>
> Thank you for covering these points; modals are challenging(!) and it
> seems--at the moment--that there is no one single perfect solution for all
> cases.
>
> For what it's worth, Scott O’hara ​talks about both the points:
>
> aria-modal=”true”
>
> https://github.com/scottaohara/accessible_modal_window#lack-of-features-are-not-bugs
> role=”dialog”
>
> https://github.com/scottaohara/accessible_modal_window#modal-dialog-base-markup
>
> I do not feel qualified to firmly suggest his approach "better", and as he
> notes time is an issue (as it goes by, support improves), but from what I
> read it *seemed* that Scott O’hara's approach was also good.
>
> Regards,
>
> Alan
>
>
>