As of ISSUE-616, it is marked as at-risk.
I’ve expressed my concern that, if anyone were to implement this, it would break author and user agent expectations for how event handlers should work. I proposed we resolve the need for this in HTML, DOM, or a later version of ARIA by defining activation behaviors per role.
> On Oct 30, 2013, at 8:11 AM, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com> wrote:
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> Is this feature marked at risk? Does anyone plan to implement this?
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> https://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/testharness/testcases/edit?testsuite_id=2&testcase_id=31
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> "span element with tabindex=0 and a click event listener that reports it was fired but no key event listener, tab to the element and press enter"
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> expected result:
> "the click event listener report is observed"
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> test file:
> https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/pfwg/raw-file/default/ARIA-UAIG/1.0/tests/test-files/test31.html
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> Rich Schwerdtfeger