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From: Sailesh Panchang
Date: May 19, 2015 3:17PM

Not sure why that should apply in this case. What's the basis for
expecting the CSS paradigm to be applied to WAI-ARIA?
Anything in the ARIA specs to this effect?
Moreover, the ARIA specs for aria-hidden specifically indicates that
aria-false is as good as not setting the attribute at all.
Sailesh


On 5/19/15, Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> 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?
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> Because this is how CSS visibility:hidden and visibility:visible work.
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> If this method worked for aria-hidden it would make hiding background
> content when modals appear much more straight forward.
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