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Your Dialog Has role='dialog'. That Doesn't Make It Accessible.
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Your Dialog Has role='dialog'. That Doesn't Make It Accessible.

via Dev.to Reactvenkatesh m10h ago

The Attribute Isn't the Behavior Open any component library's Dialog implementation. You'll find role="dialog" and aria-modal="true" on the content panel. Check the box, ship it, call it accessible. Now try using it with a keyboard. Open the dialog. Press Tab. Where does focus go? If it goes behind the dialog to the page content, the dialog isn't accessible — a keyboard user is now interacting with elements they can't see, behind a modal overlay. Press Tab twelve more times. If focus never wraps back to the first element inside the dialog, it's not trapped. Press Escape. If the dialog doesn't close and return focus to the button that opened it, a keyboard user is stranded. role="dialog" tells a screen reader "this is a dialog." It doesn't trap focus. It doesn't handle Escape. It doesn't restore focus on close. It doesn't prevent clicks outside from reaching the page behind. It's a label, not a behavior. The gap between "has the right ARIA attributes" and "actually works for someone usi

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