Re: @inert and @aria-inert for disambiguating modal states

• From: James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>
• Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 10:01:56 -0800
• To: Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>
• Cc: Dominic Mazzoni <dmazzoni@google.com>, Jason Kiss <jason@accessibleculture.org>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>, W3C WAI Protocols & Formats <public-pfwg@w3.org>, Alexander Surkov <surkov.alexander@gmail.com>, PFWG <w3c-wai-pf@w3.org>
• Message-id: <68673477-8568-4EB9-927E-B3AF73AACD66@apple.com>

On Nov 5, 2014, at 11:17 AM, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> Dominic, @inert is an indicator of state - like aria states and properties. It does not have to do the actual function.

This is a false statement. @inert is useless if it does not provide the function. By the same logic, I can see no possible way that @aria-inert would be useful or even possible to implement.

Received on Thursday, 6 November 2014 18:02:29 UTC