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Re: Using ARIA for styling?

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Mar 6, 2017 9:48AM

To deal with the problem of aria-current not being well supported yet,
you could add a title element="selected" to the currently selected
link.
<li><a aria-current="true" title="selected" class="selected">Menu item</a></li>
I believe only Jaws 18 has aria-current support yet, bt we should see
that support increase quickly over the next couple of months.
With this bckup, usingaria-current will not degrade the experience of
non-supporting user agents, so you can totally do it.
Again aria-selected is not valid with links, only with radio buttons,
options in a dropdown, tabs or grid cells.
Check the ARIA 1.1 section for aria-selected and see the roles and
inherited roles sections in the table for a list of roles that can be
used with aria-selected.
For any role not litsd there, browsers and assistive technologies are
instructed to ignore the use of aria-selected, and ARIA aware
accessibility testing tools will flag its presence on those elements
as an error.



On 3/6/17, Preast, Vanessa < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Thank you to both Jonathan and Patrick!
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> Best,
> Vanessa
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