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Manage Focus

MUST

MUST: Manage focus (trap, move, and return) per APG patterns

Use focus traps, move and return focus according to WAI-ARIA patterns

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Why it matters

When opening modals or dialogs, trap focus within them so keyboard users can't accidentally tab outside. When closing, return focus to the element that triggered the dialog. This maintains context and prevents confusion for keyboard and screen reader users.

Built by Gleb Stroganov, design engineer at Evil Martians.

The rules come from other people's skills and guidelines — Vercel, Rauno Freiberg, @Ibelick, impeccable, Emil Kowalski, Tailwind, RAMS — each one credited on the Sources page. The work here is extraction and wiring: every rule is pulled into one corpus, given a good and a bad example you can operate, a MUST/SHOULD/NEVER rule an agent can paste, and a link back to where it came from.