Modal Dialogs Without React (or Javascript)
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The article discusses using the HTML5 <dialog> element to create modal dialogs without relying on JavaScript or React, and the discussion highlights its benefits for accessibility.
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PaulHoule
about 2 months ago
We had an accessibility review last winter where we were getting complaints that our React-based modals were not completely hiding content from accessibility checkers and screen readers. <dialog> turned out to be a great solution when we rebuilt our <Modal>(s) around them. There is a little mismatch between the edge-triggered events of the <dialog> and the way React wants to be level-triggered but it was not hard to reconcile.
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