Regarding selected cells within a static data table

Hi,
This came up last week, and seems to indicate a missing area in what we have available in either aria-current or aria-selected, but I'm not sure which.

The scenario is a static data table where a series of situations are possible, (1) all cells in a column are highlighted as being selected, (2) all cells in a row are highlighted as being selected, or (3) any number of random cells within the data table are highlighted as being selected.

I was asked if aria-current could be used for this, but this does not actually fit because this only deals with one current item in a collection.

Similarly, the aria-selected attribute won't work because it is not supported on role="cell".

Also, it is invalid to add role="grid" to the construct just to expose aria-selected because this is a static data table and is not an interactive widget.

So, since nothing is available to deal with this, it seems that it should be either handled by aria-current or aria-selected, even though at present it does not.

Would it be agreeable to extend aria-selected to be supported on role="cell"?

Or, would adding a token to aria-current be more agreeable such as aria-current="selected"?

What are your thoughts?

Thanks,
Bryan



Bryan Garaventa
Accessibility Fellow
Level Access, Inc.
Bryan.Garaventa@LevelAccess.com
415.624.2709 (o)
www.LevelAccess.com

Received on Monday, 16 April 2018 15:54:55 UTC