Re: Feedback on aria-hidden section of "Using WAI-ARIA in HTML" document

Hi james, thanks for the feedback.

The case in the table is for where the html5 hidden attribute is being
used. aria-hidden in not needed here.

>There are differences between the two which should be called out.

do you have any suggestions?

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Regards

SteveF
HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>


On 5 April 2013 23:41, James Craig <jcraig@apple.com> wrote:

> Feedback on aria-hidden section of "Using WAI-ARIA in HTML" document
> https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/aria-unofficial/raw-file/tip/index.html
>
> @hidden versus @aria-hidden section of the attributes table:
>
> Element with a hidden<http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/editing.html#the-hidden-attribute>
>  attribute aria-hidden=true *NO*Use the hidden attribute in conjunction
> with the CSS display:none property
>
>
> There are differences between the two which should be called out. @hidden
> always hides content from all modalities, so this will result in the
> visible removable of the content in addition to removing that content from
> accessibility contexts.
>
> Depending on the UI design of a web interface, there are times when
> content needs to be hidden from screen readers. For example, sometimes
> content is rendered partially at the edge of a view (like a carousel) to
> indicate there is more that will become active once you click Next or
> scroll. In these circumstances, using @hidden would prevent the visual
> rendering of this "lead-in" content, so the document should recommend using
> @aria-hidden at some times.
>
>