Re: How important is aria-hidden, when already hidden with CSS?

Thanks Steve, I see you logged bug 27495 about this.

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=27495

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Mitchell Evan <mtchllvn@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks everybody for the clear, relevant replies. I'm concluding that for
> mobile responsive, I will use CSS alone to hide content. For user
> interactions that show and hide content, I will try the HTML5 hidden
> attribute and use it as a selector for CSS.
>
> This matters for performance. I have alternate layouts for a small piece
> of content: one layout for large screens, and one for small screens. The
> two layouts are semantically different, so I want to show one and hide the
> other. This is straightforward with a CSS media query. If instead I had
> needed to toggle aria-hidden, then it would have required the
> implementation effort of JavaScript to detect window resize events, and the
> runtime overhead of modifying the DOM.
>
> In light of this use case, would it be correct to change "must" to
> "should" in the ARIA spec?
>
> (Begin quote...)
>     Some assistive technologies access WAI-ARIA information directly
> through the DOM and not through platform accessibility supported by the
> browser. Authors must set @aria-hidden="true" on content that is not
> displayed, regardless of the mechanism used to hide it.
> (...End quote)
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.1/#aria-hidden
>
>
> On Dec 1, 2014 7:08 AM, "Steve Faulkner" <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > these results from last year may be helpful:
> > of the SR's tested chromewvox is the only one that relied solely on the
> DOM (though has changed as DOM is apparently too limiting as an
> accessibility API) On the other end is VoiceOver that does not interpret
> the DOM directly at all.
> >
> > Screen reader support for hidden content
> > http://www.html5accessibility.com/tests/hidden2013.html
> >
> > --
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > SteveF
> > HTML 5.1
> >
> > On 27 November 2014 at 00:42, Mitchell Evan <mtchllvn@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I have content with CSS display:none; visibility:hidden. The WAI-ARIA
> spec says add aria-hidden, to ensure support support for assistive
> technologies (AT) that access the DOM directly.
> >>
> >> For practical accessibility: which AT accesses the DOM directly?
> >>
> >> For conformance: is the CSS alone enough to meet WCAG success criteria?
> >>
> >> @mitchellrevan
> >
> >
>



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