Building an Accessible Modal with @reach/dialog
Compose DialogOverlay and DialogContent for a focus-safe modal. Learn the mechanism, worked example, common mistakes, and verification steps for @reach/dialog.
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Compose DialogOverlay and DialogContent for a focus-safe modal. Learn the mechanism, worked example, common mistakes, and verification steps for @reach/dialog.
Reach UI Dialog gives a ready‑made, accessible modal that traps focus, handles Escape, and renders via a portal. Learn how to use it, test its behavior, and avoid common pitfalls such as nested dialogs and SSR mismatches.
Stop letting keyboard users 'tab out' of your modals. Learn how to use Reach UI's FocusScope and Dialog primitives to implement professional WAI-ARIA focus traps in React.
Upgrade Path from Reach UI v1 to v2 When migrating from Reach UI v1 to v2, the deprecated Modal component is removed and replaced by Dialog . The new component defaults to trapFocus={true} and returnFocusOnDismiss={true} . Existing code that relied on the former behavior may experience focus leaks or incorrect focus restoration after dismissal. Unresolved De
When building complex modal overlays in React, managing focus is critical for WAI-ARIA compliance. Reach UI provides the FocusScope component to automatically handle tab-indexing and prevent focus from leaking into the background page. While the declarative API of FocusScope simplifies standard dialog implementations, certain complex UI patterns require non-
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