Re: ISSUE-605, ACTION-1406: @aria-selected on menuitem

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 2:32 PM, James Craig <jcraig@apple.com> wrote:

> I raised this issue last year, but I may have been mistaken.
>
> ISSUE-605: menuitem role does not allow use of aria-selected
> https://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/Group/track/issues/605
> https://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/Group/track/actions/1406
>
> In hindsight, it's not clear to me what "selected" would mean on menuitem.
> It could be associated with the visible highlight during keyboard
> navigation or mouse hover, but that's focus, not selection.


agree


> Selection makes sense on menuitemcheckbox and menuitemradio, but that's
> already covered by the @aria-checked attribute on those elements.
>

shouldn't be these covered by aria-checked? Also see [1]


>
> If there are no objections, I will close the issue and action as "Behaves
> Correctly."
>
> James
>
>
[1] https://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/Group/track/issues/504