Manuel Matuzović

The first Web Day Out conference is taking place next year on March 12, my birthday, in Brighton, and I'm one of eight speakers.

One of my clients decided to write a custom popover component that uses native popovers under the hood. We built the component and were happy with it. They were about to ship it until we realised there was an accessibility bug so severe that it was a dealbreaker for us.

Two years ago, I wrote an article about the dialog element. I tested where focus goes when you open a modal dialog via the showModal() method. I tried different combinations of elements and attributes to see what happens because back in 2023, the behaviour was very inconsistent.