Hi leif, I am saying that if display:none or html5 hidden is used to hide
content aria-hidden should not be needed or used.
from some cursory testing that is the case with chromevox which use the DOM
dorectly and does not use accessibility APIs that is the case.
regards
Stevef
On 27 April 2012 13:57, Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no
> wrote:
> Steve Faulkner, Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:01:49 +0100:
> > hi Ben,
> >>How does this impact what ARIA should say here, in your view?
> >
> > I think that we should not be adding additional burden and complexity
> > for authors with aria-hidden.
> >
> > aria-hidden confuses me.
> >
> > I think that html5 hidden and CSS display:none should be functionally
> > and semantically the same and that both should imply aria-hidden=true
>
> I think the intention of ARIA's MUST is that authors must/should do
>
> element[aria-hidden=true]{display:none}
>
> rather than
>
> element{display:none}
>
> Do you suggest that ARIA 1.0 should say "SHOULD" instead of "MUST"
> w.r.t. aria-hidden="true"?
>
> Leif H Silli
>
> > On 27 April 2012 09:29, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote:
> >> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Steve Faulkner wrote:
> >>> Have not been following this discussion closely, but just wanted
> >>> to provide info about an implementation detail.
> >>>
> >>> In all supporting browsers CSS display:none is applied to elements
> >>> with the hidden attribute.
> >>
> >> Thanks Steve.
> >>
> >> They are following the HTML5 spec in that default styling detail.
> >>
> >> How does this impact what ARIA should say here, in your view?
>
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