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Re: Styling Radio elements to look like Button element?

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From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: Nov 1, 2014 12:06PM

Just a quick note, it's the checked state you want to convey with radios, not selected. This is often misimplemented for ARIA roles
such as 'radio', where aria-selected is used instead of aria-checked, which is what it should be. The use of aria-selected is not
valid on role=radio.

Live demo:
http://whatsock.com/tsg/Coding%20Arena/ARIA%20Radio%20Buttons/ARIA%20Radio%20Buttons/demo.htm

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From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2014 9:38 AM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Styling Radio elements to look like Button element?

Make sure that appropriate ARIA markup is used if you are creating faux radiobuttons, and that the selected state is always clearly
indicated.
What do you do for keyboard behavior?
People expect radiobuttons to consist of a single focusable element with arrow key navigation to select a different option from
within the group.
For buttons you expect each button to be focusable.
I would recommend implementing keyboard navigation consistent with user expectations for the perceived element(s), (so JavaScript to
allow for arrow navigation of radiobutton groups), though one could argue either way on whether not doing so it a WCAG violation
(4.1.2).
Cheers
-B

On 10/31/14, Jesse Hausler < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> I haven't looked at your code, but we've styled radio buttons to look
> like big buttons and things like that.
>
> Sometimes we'll place the real <input type="radio"> off screen and
> wrap an associated label around the click target. That way when a user
> clicks on it, the radio is triggered.
>
> We'll usually use an anchor with javascript to trigger the radio with
> a keyboard.
>
> Jesse
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 9:41 PM, Maraikayar Prem Nawaz
> < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> One of the Collaborator of Bootstrap plugin says "Folks wanted easy
>> to use form-based components, but with the style of our bootstrap
>> buttons, so we gave it to them in an easy to implement way."
>> https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/14635#issuecomment-55935879
>>
>>
>> This is example link which talks about functional "radio" button groups.
>>
>> http://getbootstrap.com/javascript/#buttons-checkbox-radio
>>
>> What do you think of styling Radio Button to look exactly like Button?
>> I'm
>> not sure about the use case for this example.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> -Nawaz
>> >> >> list messages to <EMAIL REMOVED>
>>
> > > list messages to <EMAIL REMOVED>
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