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Moves the Close and navigation buttons after the dialog heading in the DOM, so screen readers read them in the same order they appear on screen.

Back-compat: a plugin that overrides tmpl-media-frame would no longer get a Close button in the modal.

Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/66270

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Numbers show DOM order.

	Before	After
Media modal
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[afercia]

Regarding:

Back-compat: a plugin that overrides tmpl-media-frame would no longer get a Close button in the modal.

Is there any way to mitigate this risk? To my understanding:

• If the frame modal option is true, it will now use the button in the correct order
• If the frame modal option is false (is this the case when the frame may be overridden by plugins?) then let the button in the wrong order be used. It will be wrong order, but at least there is no backward compatibility breakage.

I may be missing something though.