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From: Sailesh Panchang
Date: May 19, 2015 2:46PM

Jonathan,
What is the rationale for expecting the child element to be exposed to
AT when the aria-hidden on the parent is true? Why should the
ancestor's aria-hidden value be disregarded?
Sailesh

Sailesh



On 5/19/15, Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> I am not sure I understand the behavior you are expecting:
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> We are expecting that a element's explicit aria hidden state would be
> honored over its ancestors -- in this case it doesn't appear to be.
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