Dominic,
The most compelling use case that I have heard for ARIA-CURRENT is when you have a list of links and one of the links is to the page (or view) you are currently on. ARIA-CURRENT could tell you that this is the link to this page (or view).
Another use case for indicating the current step in a list of steps, I am not as convinced about this use case since I think the primary way to indicate the step should be through page titling, landmark labels and/or headings.
Jon
From: Dominic Mazzoni <dmazzoni@google.com<mailto:dmazzoni@google.com>>
Date: Wednesday, November 26, 2014 at 1:00 PM
To: Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@alum.mit.edu<mailto:clown@alum.mit.edu>>
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Subject: Re: ACTION-1442: Draft spec text for aria-current and aria-currentfor
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@alum.mit.edu<mailto:clown@alum.mit.edu>> wrote:
The example I gave using site navigation applies: http://idrc.ocad.ca/index.php/research-and-development/ongoing-projects. The site index can be navigated using up/down arrow keys, moving focus from link to link, but the "you-are-here" link doesn't change. Thus, "focus" is independent of "current" in the same container.
This really feels like "selected" to me. Can you explain why you feel aria-selected would be a poor choice here, or a case where aria-current would be different than aria-selected?