On popover accessibility: what the browser does and doesn’t do | hidde.blog
March 25, 2024
One of the premises of the new popover attribute is that it comes with general accessibility considerations “built in”. What does “built in accessibility” actually mean for browsers that support popover?
Source: On popover accessibility: what the browser does and doesn’t do | hidde.blog
Since time began (well close enough) people have tried to build their own dialog boxes, menus, ‘toasts’, all sorts of things that ‘pop open’–and they are an accessibility nightmare.
Now the HTML popover attribute aims to address this, with ‘accessibility built in’. But just what doe that mean?