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Modal Dialog Focus Management Issue on WordPress

Modal dialogs do not trap focus or return focus to the trigger element when closed. This causes keyboard users to lose their place on the page.

Issue ID: A11Y-MODAL-FOCUS-001Severity: majorEffort: M

Why this matters

Modal dialogs do not trap focus or return focus to the trigger element when closed. This causes keyboard users to lose their place on the page. This affects usability, compliance risk, and how many visitors can successfully consume the page.

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How to fix this on WordPress

Use the page editor, theme, or SEO tooling depending on where this issue lives.

  1. 1Inspect the page and theme output.
  2. 2Apply the fix in the most direct place.
  3. 3Publish and validate with a re-audit.

After you fix it

  • ✓Open and close modals using only the keyboard and confirm focus management is correct

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