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This is frustrating because the unnamed people advising that were wrong. It confuses trapping page focus in a modal to blocking users from using the rest of their browser. Also, ugh APG.

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If you find someone advising it, be wary of their UI / accessibility chops.

#HTML #accessibility #a11y

And I was surprised — accessibility advice around modals have commonly taught us to trap focus within the modal. So this seems wrong to me. Upon further research, it seems like we no longer need to trap focus within the <dialog> (even in modal mode). So, the focus-trapping is deprecated advice if you use <dialog>.

There is No Need to Trap Focus on a Dialog Element | CSS-Tricks

Accessibility advice around modals have commonly taught us to trap focus within the modal. Upon further research, it seems like we no longer need to trap focus within the (even in modal mode).
Zell Liew (CSS-Tricks)
#html #accessibility #a11y
in reply to Adrian Roselli, pH0

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Just to muddy the waters... I've had folks argue it's not a "trap" if ESC is implemented to close the modal. And, okay, maybe. But it's still not expected/native behavior. You should be able to tab to the browser's chrome (address bar etc) even with the dialog open.
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