Re: Question in the use of aria-hidden attribute

On 03/12/2018 23:06, Sean Murphy (seanmmur) wrote:
> Thanks everyone for the answers. I was going to ask the purpose of 
> aria-hidden=”false”. As off and false in my mind is the same. But 
> Brian’s explanation explains the reasoning behind the false value. 
> People are very confused with this aria attribute that I have seen.
> 
> Question, if someone wants to hide content from a screen reader and only 
> expose it when required. I assume they should use aria-hidden=”off” to 
> re-populate the accessibility tree.

Just removing the aria-hidden="true" will be best, as Bryan said (and 
note again there's no "off" value - it's "true" or "false").

P
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