- From: Todd Kloots <kloots@yahoo-inc.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:18:31 -0800
- To: "wai-xtech@w3.org" <wai-xtech@w3.org>
- CC: Victor Tsaran <vtsaran@yahoo-inc.com>, James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>, Satyam Utsa <satyamutsa@yahoo.com.ar>
I am curious how it is imagined that the "aria-multiselectable" and "aria-selected" properties apply to a TreeView control? The ARIA spec indicates that the "aria-multiselectable" property can be used with the the "tree" role, and the "aria-selected" state with "treeitem". However, the "aria-selected" state only accepts a boolean. How should developers indicate parent nodes in a partially selected stated - some tree items selected, some not. And how is a screen reader supposed to announce the partially selected state of a parent node? I've yet to find any ARIA TreeView examples that make use of "aria-multiselectable", but considering the spec indicates that it applies to trees and the ARIA Authoring Practices specifies keyboard shortcuts for supporting multiple selection on trees, I figured some thought must have been given to this use case. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Todd
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