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Thought I'd chime in and give some more context. David and I are
getting started on improving the accessibility of the jQuery UI
widgets. We've started by playing with the existing demos using the
keyboard as our only input device. This is generally where we like to
start since it is a requirement of a range of adaptive technologies
from alternate input devices to screen readers. It's also a nice
concrete thing to tackle - essentially we should be able to accomplish
the same tasks with the keyboard that we can with the mouse.
In trying to use the modal dialog with the keyboard, we've found that
we get stuck. We are unable to get focus onto the dialog in order to
activate the 'close' anchor or, for that matter, in order to activate
any buttons etc that are on the dialog. A quick glance at the code
seems to point to the initial focus being placed incorrectly. Ideally
when the dialog opens, focus would be placed on the first element in
the tab order on the dialog. Perhaps the solution is simply to call
focus at the end of the 'open' function in ui.dialog.js.
Does this make sense?
Michelle

<div dir="ltr">Scott, any idea?

With current SVN, you can tab into the dialog, but not out of modal
dialogs. However, while I was working on that feature, I did notice
that the dialog no longer gets focus on open (it used to). I need to
track down the commit where that was removed to find out why it was
removed, since it's expected behavior. Please file a ticket for this
and I'll make sure to look at it for my next bug (should be as easy as
using the new :tabbable:first selector and invoking the focus event on
it).
I looked at bug #3327 last night and couldn't reproduce it locally.
If you have a test page using latest SVN demonstrating the problem,
please post it (and feel free to re-open the ticket).

On Sep 10, 4:53 pm, David Bolter <david.bol...@gmail.com>

Sorry, I should have followed up here. The bug was fixed (thanks to
Scott Gonzalez).
BTW is ui.jquery.com/bugs down?
cheers,
David

Thanks for the reply, David.
I noticed the fix; the first tabbable child receives focus. It was
more that I was pondering the log message mentioning the fix was a
"partial" fix:
"Dialog: Partial fix for #3327: When opening a dialog, give focus to
the first
tabbable element inside the dialog."
Thanks,
Jon

<div dir="ltr">Hi Jon,
There were technically two problems.  The first was that the dialog wasn't receiving focus on open (fixed).  The second was that there are still some edge cases where a user can cause focus to leave a modal dialog (not fixed - there's a ticket for this).  The remaining issue will be addressed once I can implement a solution that doesn't bring IE to its knees when there is a large DOM (there's also a ticket for this).

<div dir="ltr">Yeah, UI's bug tracker will be down for a few more days.  It is being moved to a new server to help with the performance problems the jQuery site was experiencing.

Scott González