fix(a11y): 36 modal dialogs announce themselves and take focus (#185)
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Most modals rendered a folds Dialog/Modal with no role and no name, and
their focus traps used `initialFocus: false`, so focus stayed behind the
modal and a screen reader never announced it.

- 32 dialogs with a visible heading: role="dialog", aria-modal,
  aria-labelledby → the heading (given an id), tabIndex=-1.
- 4 dialogs that already had a name (Leave Room, room topic viewer,
  server ACL, room-nav prompt): role + aria-modal.
- Their focus traps drop `initialFocus: false` for focus-trap's default
  (keep an already-focused autoFocus field, else the first tabbable
  element) with the dialog itself as fallbackFocus, so a dialog without
  a tabbable node can't crash the trap. Traps that live in a parent
  (UIA stages, Logout, Forward, Invite) get the semantics only.
- The file drop overlay is deliberately left alone (not a dialog).

Checked at runtime: Join with Address, Delete Message, Report Message,
Leave Room and Logout open as named dialogs with focus inside and close
with Escape (Tab first when a text field has focus — the shared
stopPropagation keeps Escape from discarding typed text, by design).
The axe e2e spec (6 tests) passes; eslint warnings unchanged (46).
17 modals with no heading (image/file viewers, loading screens) remain.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PPmy3tPq869XDW4njjVaKA
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Lotus CI
2026-09-24 13:06:10 -04:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5.5
parent 359c79a440
commit ce8ed89fdc
31 changed files with 350 additions and 84 deletions
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@@ -55,20 +55,27 @@ function SelfDemoteAlert({ power, onCancel, onChange }: SelfDemoteAlertProps) {
<OverlayCenter>
<FocusTrap
focusTrapOptions={{
initialFocus: false,
fallbackFocus: '#powerchip-dialog-1',
onDeactivate: onCancel,
clickOutsideDeactivates: true,
escapeDeactivates: stopPropagation,
}}
>
<Dialog variant="Surface">
<Dialog
id="powerchip-dialog-1"
role="dialog"
aria-modal="true"
aria-labelledby="powerchip-dialog-1-title"
tabIndex={-1}
variant="Surface"
>
<Header
style={{ padding: `0 ${config.space.S200} 0 ${config.space.S400}` }}
variant="Surface"
size="500"
>
<Box grow="Yes">
<Text as="h2" size="H4">
<Text id="powerchip-dialog-1-title" as="h2" size="H4">
Self Demotion
</Text>
</Box>
@@ -107,20 +114,27 @@ function SharedPowerAlert({ power, onCancel, onChange }: SharedPowerAlertProps)
<OverlayCenter>
<FocusTrap
focusTrapOptions={{
initialFocus: false,
fallbackFocus: '#powerchip-dialog-2',
onDeactivate: onCancel,
clickOutsideDeactivates: true,
escapeDeactivates: stopPropagation,
}}
>
<Dialog variant="Surface">
<Dialog
id="powerchip-dialog-2"
role="dialog"
aria-modal="true"
aria-labelledby="powerchip-dialog-2-title"
tabIndex={-1}
variant="Surface"
>
<Header
style={{ padding: `0 ${config.space.S200} 0 ${config.space.S400}` }}
variant="Surface"
size="500"
>
<Box grow="Yes">
<Text as="h2" size="H4">
<Text id="powerchip-dialog-2-title" as="h2" size="H4">
Shared Power
</Text>
</Box>
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@@ -79,13 +79,18 @@ export function UserHero({ userId, avatarUrl, presence }: UserHeroProps) {
<OverlayCenter>
<FocusTrap
focusTrapOptions={{
initialFocus: false,
fallbackFocus: '#userhero-dialog-1',
onDeactivate: () => setViewAvatar(undefined),
clickOutsideDeactivates: true,
escapeDeactivates: stopPropagation,
}}
>
<Modal
id="userhero-dialog-1"
role="dialog"
aria-modal="true"
aria-labelledby="userhero-dialog-1-title"
tabIndex={-1}
size="500"
className={ModalMobileFull}
onContextMenu={(evt: React.MouseEvent) => evt.stopPropagation()}
@@ -131,6 +136,7 @@ export function UserHeroName({
<Box grow="Yes" direction="Column" gap="0">
<Box alignItems="Baseline" gap="200" wrap="Wrap">
<Text
id="userhero-dialog-1-title"
size="H4"
className={classNames(BreakWord, LineClamp3)}
title={displayName ?? username}