Auto-focus on first interactable element could be bad UX (on mobile)? about a11y-dialog HOT 4 CLOSED

Interesting. I’d like @Heydon and @ffoodd opinion. :)

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I totally agree, and even if it's pretty subtle, so does WAI: Making a dialog modal.

On the third paragraph it says that "focus should be set to the first tab focusable element within the dialog", what you did by setting it on the first input. But two sentences later: "There must be some element within the dialog which can accept focus in order for the screen reader to speak the dialog title and information when it is opened."

And announcing the dialog title should obviously happen before any other interaction inside the modal (IMO). This is what's done on the Athena ICT example and many other examples.

So for all these reasons I think @martinkz is right :)

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Okay, then let’s add tabindex=0 to the dialog title.

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Should be done with 59c452e and cb36732.

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