Re: UAIG requires checkable object attribute for aria-pressed

I don't recall how the checkable object attribute came into existence.

Cheers,
D


On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 12:06 PM, david bolter <david.bolter@gmail.com>wrote:

> I don't recall the discussions but I think the idea is that aria-pressed
> should only be used for implementing toggle buttons, or at least for
> buttons where the current state (pressed or not) is important for some
> reason (perhaps a press and hold counter or something). I think these use
> cases are semantically similar to checkboxes.
>
> Cheers,
> D
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:54 PM, Alexander Surkov <
> surkov.alexander@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi. UAIG says that object attribute checkable:true should be exposed
>> for aria-pressed both for IA2 and ATK what is unexpected by AT since
>> they want checkable object attribute on checkboxes only (see Mozilla
>> bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=825114). May I know a
>> cause why checkable object attribute was introduced?
>>
>> Thank you.
>> Alex.
>>
>>
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