Role separator and aria-expanded from Rich Schwerdtfeger on 2017-03-09 (public-aria@w3.org from March 2017)

From: Rich Schwerdtfeger <richschwer@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 09:19:51 -0400
To: Alexander Surkov <surkov.alexander@gmail.com>, Bogdan Brinza <bbrinza@microsoft.com>, Dominic Mazzoni <dmazzoni@google.com>
Cc: ARIA Working Group <public-aria@w3.org>
Message-Id: <E82B05C6-F24B-41E9-8EF3-B3C06A560396@gmail.com>

So, the ARIA 1.1 spec. no longer supports aria-expanded on the separator role. Consequently, it is now an invalid property for that role. Should browsers suppress the mapping if it is not the role or leave it up to accessibility test tools to flag it or both?

I am concerned that this could an undue burden on user agents to have to check and suppress all these situations but I would like your input. Joanie would like it suppressed, at least for the separator role. 

Rich

Received on Thursday, 9 March 2017 13:20:44 UTC