Re: ARIA radiobuttons, aria-checked or aria-selected?

Brilliant!
Yes, reading the 1.1 spec is on my to-do list, optimistically for this weekend.
Thanks
-Birkir

On 3/20/15, Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> Hi Birkir,
>
> The short answer is that in ARIA 1.1, radio buttons are required to
> support only aria-checked, and not aria-selected [1].
>
> I suspect you are reading from the ARIA 1.0 recommendation [2].  At that
> version of the spec, the radio role inherited its states and properties
> from both checkbox and option, and got aria-selected through option.  In
> ARIA 1.1, radio inherits only from checkbox.
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.1/#radio
> [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/roles#radio
>
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