RE: Agenda: April 7, 2016 WAI-ARIA Working Group

Hi,
This still does not account for when role="combobox" is placed on an input+type="text" and uses aria-activedescendant on the same element to reference role="option" within a listbox elsewhere in the DOM.





-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Scheuhammer [mailto:clown@alum.mit.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2016 9:01 AM
To: Rich Schwerdtfeger <schwer@yahoo.com>; ARIA <public-aria@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Agenda: April 7, 2016 WAI-ARIA Working Group

Rich,

On 2016-04-05 1:03 PM, Rich Schwerdtfeger wrote:
> 3. Action 1490 and 1743: Combobox and aria-activedescendant on 
> application (25 minutes *max* discussion) Matt

I had an action to modify the definition for aria-activedescendant in light of the changes to combobox.  The changes were made in this branch:
http://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/mck-action1490-activedescendant/aria/aria.html#aria-activedescendant


I added a paragraph to the end of the definition:

"
A special use case is a combobox where its textbox has DOM focus, and that textbox employs an aria-activedescendant attribute to reference the currently active listbox option. The referenced listbox option is not in fact a descendant of the textbox itself, but of its parent combobox element. Even so, the aria-activedescendant property is treated by user agents as the active descendant of the combobox, and not the textbox.
"

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