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From: Léonie Watson
Date: Nov 12, 2013 2:49AM
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Birkir R. Gunnarsson wrote:
"It is increasingly common that websites visually indicate the active
element in a set of elements. This could be the current/active step in a
process, visually highlighting the currently active link in a list of links
or similar."
There is a proposal on the W3C PF list for a new ARIA attribute:
http://tinyurl.com/o2dh3qf
The original suggestion was to use aria-selected, but (as you point out)
that isn't practical. The suggestion is now to add a new attribute, called
perhaps aria-current or aria-active.
Léonie.
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