Accessible modals aren’t hard to make, and you can make your modal dialogs accessible if you keep four simple requirements. Implementing them can be done easily by using the code examples in this blog post, where I use the HTML5
<dialog>
polyfill to do so. Read this article, and you can do the same with any modal dialog library/framework that you use today. This post includes a working demo and a video outlining how it works using both mobile and desktop screen readers.
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Creating Accessible HTML5 Modal Dialogs For Desktop and Mobile
March 17th, 2019 by zoltan · No Comments
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