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Re: aria-expanded state for show-hide interaction?

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Nov 23, 2014 3:37PM

Thanks Bryan

I was misinterpreting this feature.
I thought that aria-hidden only overrode the container element, not
its children.
so
<div aria-hidden="false" style="display: none;">
Some content, this is all visible to screen readers, but invisible to
the rest of the world.
<a href="http://www.blinconspiracy.com"Take over the world</a>
</div>

but if you explicitly declare a child of the container as hidden that
would override the semantics of the parent
<div aria-hidden="false" style="display: none;">
Some content, this is all visible to screen readers.
<a href="http://www.blinconspiracy.com"Take over the world</a>
<input type="hidden" value="AlreadyDone"> <!-- this should be hidden
still, I thought -->
</div>

I see from the context that my understanding is probably not true.
I think this opens the door to a lot of confusion, but that is
discussion for another area.
Thanks for clearing this up!
-B



On 11/23/14, Bryan Garaventa < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Just as a quick note about aria-hidden=false and VoiceOver, this is actually
> a feature, so it's likely to become more widely
> implemented in the future.
> Reference: http://lnkd.in/bA8ZaPP
> And
> http://www.w3.org/2013/12/16-pf-minutes.html
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