Re: Question on aria-hidden nesting

related bugs:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=945194
Bug 945194 - Add accessibles that have aria-hidden="false" to the tree even
if HTML5 hidden or CSS hidden or display: none

@hidden should have a weak mapping to aria-hidden=true
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=18574

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Regards

SteveF
HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>

On 19 May 2015 at 16:10, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> wrote:

> This has been previously discussed and there is a related spec/browser bug.
> Implementer support for this behaviour does not have consensus.
> Will dig out reference and post when I get a chance.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On 19 May 2015, at 15:33, Birkir Gunnarsson <birkir.gunnarsson@deque.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Greetings
> >
> > Can aria-hidden="false" be used on children of elements with
> aria-hidden="true"?
> > <code>
> > <div aria-hidden="true">
> > content
> > <div aria-hidden="false" role="dialog">
> > Visible dialog content
> > </div>
> > more parent div content.
> > </div>
> >
> > One use case is implementing a modal using an in-page element (when
> > creating a separate div for modal dialog content is not possible).
> > The spec is not explicit on this, though the definition says that
> > :the element and all of its descendants are invisible to assistive
> > technologies).
> > http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria-1.1/states_and_properties#aria-hidden
> >
> > This technique does not work with screen readers currently, but we
> > have not yet investigated where the problem lies, and I am not 100%
> > sure is a problem, or if not being able to override aria-hidden state
> > for a descendant of aria-hidden="true" element is expected behavior.
> > Thanks
> >
>