aria-selected removed from role=option in ARIA 1.1? from Bryan Garaventa on 2015-04-24 (public-pfwg@w3.org from April 2015)

From: Bryan Garaventa <bryan.garaventa@ssbbartgroup.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 00:38:12 +0000
To: "public-pfwg@w3.org" <public-pfwg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <BL2PR03MB3381FE90202AFFA1AB8A64298EC0@BL2PR03MB338.namprd03.prod.outlook.com>

Hi, historically four roles supported aria-selected, gridcell, row, option, and tab, as stated at
http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/states_and_properties#aria-selected

Now, it looks like option has been removed from 1.1.
http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.1/#aria-selected

This would make multi-select Listboxes impossible to program.

Received on Friday, 24 April 2015 00:38:42 UTC