Re: ACTION-1442: Draft spec text for aria-current and aria-currentfor

I don't understand why we need 2 different attributes for this - it 
seems too complicated. Couldn't we just have aria-currentfor which would 
specify the id of the container for which the element is "current". It 
would be an error to have 2 or more aria-currentfor attributes on the 
same page specifying the same idref.

What use cases would this not meet?

Regards,
James



On 11/6/2014 1:32 PM, White, Jason J wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bryan Garaventa [mailto:bryan.garaventa@ssbbartgroup.com]
>> "The aria-current attribute indicates whether the element is current
>> (true), or not current (false). If the aria-current attribute is false,
>> the current state of the element should not be conveyed by User Agents."
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>> This implies two functions for false, which seems to state that false
>> should be conveyed as 'not current' as well as ignored by user agents at
>> the same time.
> I suspect the intent was that a value of "true" should be conveyed in some way to the user (i.e., the element is current), but that a value of false should not be conveyed at all. That is, if the element is not current, don't present anything to the user. The absence of aria-current and aria-current="false" would therefore be indistinguishable in the user interface.
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