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From: Sailesh Panchang
Date: May 21, 2015 12:37PM

Jonathan,
From the link for bug #945194 sent by Steve F, I see others also agree
that the parent's aria-hidden=true will apply to a child with
aria-hiddenúlse. I reproduce some text and code below:
<start>
<div aria-hidden="true"><div aria-hidden="false">the text is not
visible for AT</div></div>
That is correct. A descendant node set to aria-hidden="false" will not
override a ancestor node's visibility. This shoulld be clarified in
ARIA 1.1.
but the same time HTML5 spec now requires
<div hidden><div aria-hidden="false">HTML5 spec thinks this text
should be visible for AT</div></div>
That's an error in the spec then. Could probably be solved with some
explanatory text.

</end>

But aria-hiddenúlse on the same element will expose content to AT:
<div hidden (or display:none) aria-hiddenúlse">This content is
exposed to AT</div>

Thanks,

Sailesh


On 5/20/15, Steve Faulkner < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> On 20 May 2015 at 14:05, Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
>> this is just not practical.
>
>
> Unfortunately unless we can get implementers to agree to implement this
> behaviour, then that's what we have to work with.
> As a side note: the native HTML mechanism for blocking interaction with
> content outside of a modal <dialog> does not provide subtree state to be
> changed from inert.
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html51/editing.html#inert-subtrees
>
> --
>
> Regards
>
> SteveF
> HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>;
> > > > >