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Re: Using aria-selected=true on any HTML element?

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From: Brendan McKeon
Date: Aug 21, 2012 11:07PM

Scratch that, been doing too much stuff with listboxes today, so everything
I see is a listbox... you're talking about a breadcrumb bar, or page
navigation menu or tabs or something similar here?

These would seem to be a good match for tabs, but that doesn't work out well
in practice. Bryan Garaventa has an article outlining the problems with this
at the following link, and suggests offscreen text as best option for now:
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Why-you-should-not-use-4512178.S.134719297

Brendan.