Re: Should user agents be expected to expose the presence of an aria-current descendant?

Hey Léonie.

On 11/11/2014 04:43 AM, Léonie Watson wrote:

> Out of curiosity, would it be difficult for a screen reader to treat aria-current in the way it does a landmark role (for example)? I'm thinking about the ability to move to a landmark with a shortcut and/or call up a dialogue listing all the landmarks on the page?

No more difficult than doing what I'm proposing. The difference between
what I've been proposing and what you are asking about above is that my
proposal assumes the check is done automatically (e.g. when focus
changes). In yours, it would only be done on demand (e.g. when the user
executes a command). So if the responsibility of locating the
aria-current item will fall upon ATs to sort it out, only doing it on
demand is clearly preferable.

--joanie

Received on Tuesday, 11 November 2014 12:16:03 UTC