It may be worth you asking this question on the W3C wai-ig list as there are many experienced web content accessibilty experts subscribed and who may well have already looked at this. Based on my experience, using the jquery dialog with nvda on FF, I couldn't work out how to get nvda to read the content of the message easily. It read the button text OK and I could tab around the dialog OK. But couldn't work out how to get at the message text. Whether there is a solution to this, or whether this is an issue with nvda / FF and how the dialog is marked up I don't know. Be interested what others have found. Cheers Ian -----Original Message----- From: program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chamandeep Grover Sent: 03 October 2012 10:38 To: program-l Subject: [program-l] accessibility of jquery dialogue hello, My company is changing its previous website code to modern styling. One of the things they are using is the jquery ui dialogue. As you all may know, when the dialogue is displayed on screen, all of the other elements are not able to receive focus by jaws and i believe with the mouse either. The dialogue should ideally receive primary focus and be accessible with jaws or any other screen reader, however that is not always the case. During testing, the dialogue may come up at the bottom of the page or at another position; dependant on the page. So my question is, firstly is there a way to make this dialogue fully accessible so there is no inconsistency with the primary focus. If not, what alternatives are available similar to the jquery dialogue? Thanks Chamandeep ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq