Re: Question in the use of aria-hidden attribute

On 03/12/2018 05:09, Sean Murphy (seanmmur) wrote:
> Aria-hidden=”true” – from the current block attribute (tag) and children 
> are removed from the accessibility tree. visually, is the information 
> still present if no CSS attributes used?

Yes, it is. The aria-hidden attribute does not change the visual 
appearance of the content.

> 
> Aria-hidden=”off” – does nothing to the accessibility tree.
Correct.

> 
> Now for aria-hidden=”false”. Extracted code below (assume CSS attributes 
> are not hiding the content).
> 
>      <div id="main" role="document" aria-hidden="false">
> 
> </div>
> 
> What would occur with the children tags within the above div? would they 
> still be visible to the accessibility tree?

Yes, they would be.


Léonie.

> 
> Sean
> 

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Received on Monday, 3 December 2018 08:24:03 UTC