why AIRA need to see the hidden element? from Sunyang (Eric) on 2012-07-13 (public-html@w3.org from July 2012)

From: Sunyang (Eric) <eric.sun@huawei.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 08:31:17 +0000
To: HTML WG LIST <public-html@w3.org>
Message-ID: <9254B5E6361B1648AFC00BA447E6E8C32AEB7A04@szxeml545-mbx.china.huawei.com>

I think if an element is hidden, it means author do not what you see it or you should see it after some service interaction, then JS will change the element to not hidden.

So why we would like ARIA see the hidden element? Just for reading out every element of the page?

Yang
Huawei

Received on Friday, 13 July 2012 08:33:23 UTC