Hi Joseph, I was talking about the browser firing a desktop accessibility event. E.g. EVENT_OBJECT_FOCUS on Windows. Cheers, David On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@alum.mit.edu>wrote: > Hi David, > > Regarding your explanation of why aria-activedescendant exitss, there is > one thing that I need further explanation for. > > At a certain point, some ancestor element has DOM focus, (= > document.activeElement), but one of its children appears visually focussed. > You wrote (my emphasis): > > For screen readers the browser accessibility engine can use the semantics >> of aria-activedescedant to indicate what appears focused (*by firing a >> focus event for the active child*). >> > > What kind of focus event is fired for the active child? Is it a DOM focus > event? A desktop focus event? An a11y API focus event? Or some > combination of the above? > > Also, what is firing this event? Is it the browser? > > Thanks. > > > -- > ;;;;joseph > > 'I had some dreams, they were clowns in my coffee. Clowns in my coffee.' > - C. Simon (misheard lyric) - > >
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