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

On 11 November 2014 03:26, Birkir Gunnarsson <birkir.gunnarsson@deque.com>
wrote:

> Aria-current is an accessible alternative to what is frequently presented
> through CSS styling alone, in a way that is entirely inaccessible to
> assistive technologies.
> I don't think it needs to perform magic (although nobody would object to
> it).
> I think if we attached too much functionality and capacity to what started
> out as a simple attribute, we might start getting muddled in the
> implementation details.
> I think being able to use this attribute to indicate currently active
> element in a set of elements, and leave the implementation and features of
> that up to assistive technologies, that should be sufficient.
> After all, in most cases moving to the next steps in a user flow usually
> requires loading a new page, in which case an accessible page title will
> back up the change in the aria-current attribute.
>

++1

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Regards

SteveF
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