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

>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.

I understand, however this would negate the value of a grouping mechanism, because it would be impossible to determine which elements are supposed to be part of the same collection of selectable objects, if nothing is conveyed to indicate that a particular object is not current when explicitly set to 'false'.

-----Original Message-----
From: White, Jason J [mailto:jjwhite@ets.org] 
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2014 1:32 PM
To: Bryan Garaventa; LWatson@PacielloGroup.com; public-pfwg@w3.org
Subject: RE: ACTION-1442: Draft spec text for aria-current and aria-currentfor



>-----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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