Re: Issue with ARIA 1.1 and supported roles for aria-setsize and aria-posinset?

I think it makes sense to put them onto menuitem role, inheritance should
do a trick for radio and checkbox menuitem roles.

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Bryan Garaventa <
bryan.garaventa@ssbbartgroup.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I had a question today from someone asking about menus and the validity of
> aria-setsize and aria-posinset, and I believe this was slated for 1.1 but
> doesn't appear to have been added in the spec.
> E.G
> http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.1/#aria-setsize
> and
> http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.1/#aria-posinset
>
> Which only states the following as being supported:
> listitem
> option
> radio
> tab
>
> There is value in providing the same functionality for menus, especially
> when due to the nesting structure these values are not reported reliably by
> ATs.
>
> Can these attributes please be added for the roles menuitem
> menuitemcheckbox and menuitemradio as well?
>
>