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Re: Exposing the selected state of buttons

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From: Sudheer Babu
Date: Nov 22, 2019 3:19AM

Thanks Detlev!, you are right..Aria-selected works well on tab panels
aria-pressed seems to be working fine but just don't want the button to be
announced as "toggle buttons"

On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 3:45 PM Detlev Fischer < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> It is possible that I am missing something but a quick test seems to
> indicate that on <button>, aria-pressed is better supported than
> aria-selected.
>
> See
> http://3needs.org/en/testing/code/button-states.html
>
> In NVDA,
> - IE will render both (selected / pressed)
> - Firefox will just render pressed
> - Chrome will just render pressed
> - Edge ( 42.17134.1038.0) will just render pressed
>
> Detlev
>
> Am 22.11.2019 um 10:58 schrieb Patrick H. Lauke:
> > On 22/11/2019 09:50, Sudheer Babu wrote:
> > [...]
> >> Now, please help me with the appropriate aria attributes to be used
> >> to make
> >> the screen reader announce the selected state of these buttons.
> >
> > aria-selected="true"
> >
>
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