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Re: aria-disabled is really required

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From: Kakarla Meharoon
Date: Mar 8, 2018 10:02AM

if we are correctly applying the HTML disabled attribute to these elements,
*do we actually need the aria-disabled attribute as well?*

If not, the where there are cases where we are NOT applying HTML disabled
when an element is disabled, shouldn't the fix be to do that, rather than
add aria-disabled?

See for example https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38059140/when-to-
use-the-disabled-attribute-vs-the-aria-disabled-attribute-for-html-eleme which
suggests that we don't need both.

So to clarify, setting "aria-disabled" for element not supporting disabled
is enough i.e. we don't have to do anything to the tabindex as screen
readers indicate that they are disabled?



So basically the issue is mostly with elements that are styled to look
disabled.

*With best regards,*
*K.S.Meharoon*
*9700120786*