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Ensures document body is not set to aria-hidden
Rule IDa11y/aria-hidden-body
CategoryAccessibility
ScopePer-page
Severityerror
Weight10/10

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Solution

Never set aria-hidden=‘true’ on the <body> element. This makes the entire page invisible to assistive technology. If you need to hide content when a modal is open, add aria-hidden to sibling elements of the modal, not to body.

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Enable / Disable

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Disable this rule

squirrel.toml
[rules]
disable = ["a11y/aria-hidden-body"]

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Disable all Accessibility rules

squirrel.toml
[rules]
disable = ["a11y/*"]

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Enable only this rule

squirrel.toml
[rules]
enable = ["a11y/aria-hidden-body"]
disable = ["*"]