Re: aria-hidden=false interoperability issue

I believe the core problem was an ambiguity in ARIA 1.0. Both the ambiguity and the resulting WebKit modification were resolved earlier this year.

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139142


> On Aug 10, 2015, at 7:31 AM, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The ARIA Core Accessibility API Mappings 1.1 spec states that aria-hidden=false is 'not mapped' on any platform
> http://www.w3.org/TR/core-aam-1.1/#ariaHiddenFalse
> 
> So having aria-hidden=false on an element is the same as not having the attribute at all in respect to the representation of the element and any subtree content.
> <div> = <div aria-hidden=false>
> 
> This does not appear to be the case in iOS
> For example this test page: http://s.codepen.io/stevef/debug/BNMqea?
> the div with aria-hidden contains a div with style="display: none" the content of which is announced by VoiceOver (in iOS only)
> 
> code:
> <h1>hidden content</h1>
> <div aria-hidden="false">
> <div id="userOpinionSecret" style="display: none">WE know this user,
> he is not popular</div>
> </div>
> <h2>end of hidden content</h2>
> 
> This seems like a bug to me.
> 
> thanks to Birkir for pointing this issue out.
> --
> 
> Regards
> 
> SteveF
> Current Standards Work @W3C