RE: ACTION-1442: Draft spec text for aria-current and aria-currentfor from Léonie Watson on 2014-11-06 (public-pfwg@w3.org from November 2014)

From: Léonie Watson <LWatson@PacielloGroup.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 22:22:56 -0000
To: "'Matthew King'" <mattking@us.ibm.com>, "'Alexander Surkov'" <surkov.alexander@gmail.com>
Cc: "'W3C WAI Protocols & Formats'" <public-pfwg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <03db01cffa10$38070a80$a8151f80$@PacielloGroup.com>

Matthew King wrote:

“Should we consider aria-displayed? aria-showing? .... One thing I fear is that screen readers will simply say "current" and that in a particular context the word "current" does not carry meaning in a particular context for the end user.”

 

A while back I suggested making aria-current token based, and defining things like aria-current=”page”, aria-current=”step” etc. Worth revisiting?

 

Léonie.

 

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Senior Accessibility Engineer, TPG

@LeonieWatson @PacielloGroup

Received on Thursday, 6 November 2014 22:23:15 UTC