- From: James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:37:50 -0700
- To: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Cc: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>, Cynthia Shelly <cyns@microsoft.com>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>, Ted O'Connor <eoconnor@apple.com>
On Sep 19, 2012, at 1:51 AM, Leif Halvard Silli wrote: > Maciej Stachowiak, Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:37:35 -0700: >> On Sep 18, 2012, at 1:42 PM, Leif Halvard Silli: >>> Maciej Stachowiak, Tue, 18 Sep 2012 09:57:28 -0700: >>> >>> Currently, aria-hidden=true is a boolean attribute value. Thus >>> aria-hidden=false is only informative. I saw that James proposed that >>> aria-hidden=false should have an effect. >> >> As far as I can tell: >> >> - aria-hidden is not a boolean attribute in the HTML sense (i.e. it's >> not just presence or absence that matters, the attribute value >> actually matters) >> - both aria-hidden=true and aria-hidden=false are defined to have >> meaning by WAI-ARIA: >> <http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/states_and_properties#aria-hidden> > > As far as I can tell James do not view it to be like that, yet: > https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=18744#26 > https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=18744#27 > https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=18744#29 I do view it to mean what the spec says, but that means we have an at-risk feature for ARIA 1.0's CR status. https://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/Group/track/issues/535 (aria-hidden="false" at risk) > So it seems to me that we would need changes in ARIA spec and > implementations before one could use aria-hidden="false". (But may be > aria-hidden="discoverable"?) Interesting. That's certainly worth considering for ARIA 2.0. https://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/Group/track/issues/536 (aria-hidden="discoverable") James
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