Re: aria-current concerns from Apple

> On Dec 7, 2015, at 10:04 AM, Dominic Mazzoni <dmazzoni@google.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 2:33 AM James Craig <jcraig@apple.com> wrote:
>> Because: 1> deep traversal is expensive, 2> although we can cache the current element and optimize the performance, aria-current can be used on any kind of elements, sometimes it’s difficult to determine how many levels the current element should traverse up to find its parent container node (Or can we always assume that the parent node of the current element is the container we want?).
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> I'd just like to address this one point. I think it'd be fine if we required the parent node of the current element to be the container, unless the author puts role=presentation on the parent (then it should search for the first non-presentational parent).

I don't think it's reasonable to assume one level deep is enough.

One of the examples was the <nav> element and some deep descendant link to represent the current page.  There are likely to be menus or nested lists in addition to the presentational elements you mentioned.


> This is consistent with the rest of the spec, since for example an element with a role of list must have only groups and listitems as its children, not its descendants (unless some children are presentational).
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> I don't have a strong opinion otherwise.
> 
> - Dominic
> 

Received on Tuesday, 8 December 2015 07:56:03 UTC