- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 16:40:25 -0700
- To: James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>
- Cc: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>, 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 21, 2012, at 3:37 PM, James Craig <jcraig@apple.com> wrote: > 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) As far as I can tell from testing, Safari/WebKit doesn't yet implement the correct behavior for aria-hidden="false", but we certainly could, particularly if it was relevant to its at-risk status. Regards, Maciej
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