Swipe event triggering Modal

[Cyndi Thompson]

I'm having an issue where I have swipe event on the same element that triggers the modal window (button is inside a slider). I want the modal window to be triggered by a tap event, but the swipe event is also triggering it. Specifically the window seems to be triggered by the mouse up event, so it comes up after the swipe is completed and finger is lifted. Is there a way to prevent this, so that the modal window is triggered by just the tap event?