Re: ACTION-1442: Draft spec text for aria-current and aria-currentfor from Steve Faulkner on 2014-11-20 (public-pfwg@w3.org from November 2014)

From: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 15:21:28 +0000
To: Léonie Watson <LWatson@paciellogroup.com>
Cc: "White, Jason J" <jjwhite@ets.org>, Bryan Garaventa <bryan.garaventa@ssbbartgroup.com>, "Gunderson, Jon R" <jongund@illinois.edu>, Matthew King <mattking@us.ibm.com>, Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@alum.mit.edu>, "W3C WAI Protocols & Formats" <public-pfwg@w3.org>
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On 20 November 2014 15:06, Léonie Watson <LWatson@paciellogroup.com> wrote:

> I think we're in danger of over-complicating things. The aria-current
> attribute is simply a programmatic equivalent of the visual styling that
> indicates an element is the current one within a set. The definitions for
> aria-selected and aria-activedescendent make their respective purposes
> clear.
>

+100

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Regards

SteveF
HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>

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