ISSUE-568: Introduce system modal attributes for dialogs
aria-modal
Introduce system modal attributes for dialogs
- State:
- CLOSED
- Product:
- ARIA 1.1 Core Mapping Specification
- Raised by:
- Richard Schwerdtfeger
- Opened on:
- 2013-03-27
- Description:
- Dominic Mazzoni, on the Chrome team, would like to introduce a system modal ARIA attribute for dialog boxes to tell screen readers to limit their view to the modal dialog.
- Related Actions Items:
ACTION-1347 on James Craig to Add an attribute for differentiating modal vs non-modal dialogs/menus/etc. (possibly aria-modal) - due 2014-10-07, closedACTION-1538 on David Bolter to Investigate and propose mappings for aria-modal property for ia2 and/or msaa. - due 2014-12-02, closedACTION-1539 on Joseph Scheuhammer to Investigate and propose mappings for aria-modal property for atk/at-spi - due 2014-12-02, closedACTION-1540 on Cynthia Shelly to Investigate and propose mappings for aria-modal property for uia. - due 2014-12-02, closedACTION-1541 on Joseph Scheuhammer to Investigate and propose mappings for aria-modal property for axapi. - due 2016-02-08, closed- Related emails:
- No related emails
Related notes:
Action completed. Issue can be closed:
http://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/master/aria/aria.html#aria-modal
[master 5e2eaa4] aria-modal (ISSUE-568 and ACTION-1347)
1 file changed, 66 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Based on my email [1], here are proposed mappings:
ATK/AT-SPI and IA2: STATE_MODAL.
UIA: IsModal property for the Window control pattern.
AXAPI: ModalAttribute for window objects.
[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-pfwg/2014Nov/0077.html
This is now in the ARIA spec. Moving this to the Core implementation spec. as an issue.
Richard Schwerdtfeger, 14 Jun 2015, 20:54:45Closing since all related actions are completed.
Joseph Scheuhammer, 15 Apr 2016, 14:16:11Display change log
