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Re: Indicating an active element, is there something more elegant than off-screen text?
From: Sailesh Panchang
Date: Nov 12, 2013 10:42AM
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Sometimes it is not an accessibility problem:
- when the link in a set of left nav links that is active is visually
distinguished
- or the active step in a multi step process is visually distinguished
... provided the page title or h1 text conveys that.
If the elements for the steps are a set of images or have images of
checkmark next to them, then the good old alt works too.
Regards,
Sailesh
On 11/12/13, Léonie Watson < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> 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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