READ ME

Watch the talk: https://youtu.be/baR9OvL4g7w (F2E Summit 2015)

Goal

Use the creation of a dialog to demonstrate a number of core accessibility principles like

• keyboard accessibility
• focus management
• ARIA roles
• ARIA properties

The choice of a dialog for this example is due to the way in which this involves a number of user experience concerns not often considered by developers.

Steps

Project Scaffolding

• Create .bowerrc file
• Create .editorconfig file
• Create .gitattributes file
• Create .gitignore file
• Create .jshintrc file
• Create bower.json file
• Create package.json file
• Create Gruntfile

Install Deps

Run npm install && bower install

Develop

Base

• Create Web Page, CSS, and Script for the base of the demo.

Step 1

• Create our dialog object with an open method and a close method

Step 2

• Create the functionality to append the overlay, open the dialog, and close the dialog

Step 3

• Add ability to open the dialog from the # Button

Step 4

• Shift focus to the new dialog

Step 5

• Allow dialog to close from escape key

Step 6

• add accessible keydown on # button

Step 7

• add a Close button; make close button do the close business

Step 8

• Add role(s) and labels
  • Close button
  • Dialog
• Change focus to 1st focusable item (the close button)

Step 9

• Explicitly set next logical element for focus

Step 10

• Hide all the things