RE: aria-current concerns from Apple

I'm not understanding how the ID ref is supposed to work for aria-current.

The way it was proposed, aria-current would simply indicate that the element that it was applied to was current, such as the element that has focus.

If aria-current is placed on some other container somewhere and points to another element using an ID ref, and the element that it is pointing to has focus, the AT won't be interfacing with the aria-current element and will never convey this to the user.

-----Original Message-----
From: White, Jason J [mailto:jjwhite@ets.org] 
Sent: Friday, September 11, 2015 1:11 PM
To: Michiel Bijl <michiel@agosto.nl>
Cc: James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>; lwatson@paciellogroup.com; PF <public-pfwg@w3.org>
Subject: Re: aria-current concerns from Apple


> On Sep 11, 2015, at 12:14, Michiel Bijl <michiel@agosto.nl> wrote:
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> Although one could apply the ID to the currently active item in the list, that doesn't seem preferable as it doesn't match the intentions of ID's. Also, what if an element already had an ID besides the one designated to be used for the current element?

There is no ID designated to be used for the current element. Rather, aria-current is an idref that refers to (the id of) whatever happens to be the current element. When the current element changes, the idref is updated accordingly. This is entirely consistent with how id/idref pairs are meant to be used.

The only requirement is that whichever element is current has an id, and that aria-current be updated to refer to it as needed.


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