RE: Why are conflicts between native markup semantics and WAI-ARIA so complicated?

> it is explained, that aria-hidden="false" is not mapped, but I'm thinking of something like <div aria-hidden="true"> <p aria-hidden="false">I am hidden from screen readers.</p> </div>

I agree -- if this actually worked you could easily hide the contents of a page behind a modal dialog while making the contents of the modal available to screen readers.  Without this you have to set it on every other page element.  This is one of the reasons that I don't typically require that all content outside of a modal have aria-hidden on it because it very unrealistic.  Hopefully the aria-modal true property will be adopted by browsers to hide the other content in the accessibility tree.

Jonathan

-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Hellbusch [mailto:jan@hellbusch.de] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2018 5:18 AM
To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Subject: RE: Why are conflicts between native markup semantics and WAI-ARIA so complicated?

Hi Patrick,

> > Actually, this code is doing something different: "Hide something from
> > the accessibility tree (aria-hidden="true"), although it is already
> > hidden ("hidden" hides it from screen and the accessibility tree).
> > Since the hidden property is already doing what aria-hidden="true" is
> > intended to do, aria-hidden="true" is not needed. See also test cases
> > at
> > http://stevefaulkner.github.io/HTML5accessibility/tests/hidden-2016.ht

> > ml
> 
> Note that the example given was using aria-hidden="false". So it was a hidden
> element, and the attempt was being made to unhide it from AT.
> Which won't work.

Noted. Do you by any chance have a good reference (such as a "Short note") on why unhiding hidden elements (including elements in subtrees) doesn't work? The question arises quite often and developers try and try again. On
https://developer.paciellogroup.com/blog/2012/05/html5-accessibility-chops-hidden-and-aria-hidden/

it is explained, that aria-hidden="false" is not mapped, but I'm thinking of something like
<div aria-hidden="true">
<p aria-hidden="false">I am hidden from screen readers.</p>
</div>

Jan



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