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Bug 8740 - How do pseudo-class selectors interact with WAI-ARIA?
Summary: How do pseudo-class selectors interact with WAI-ARIA?
Status: VERIFIED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Joshue O Connor
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/interactiv...
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Keywords: a11y, a11ytf, aria
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Reported: 2010-01-14 11:28 UTC by Gez Lemon
Modified: 2010-10-05 15:33 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Description Gez Lemon 2010-01-14 11:28:42 UTC 
How will selectors interact with WAI-ARIA? For example, will :checked apply to the following?

<li role="menuitemcheckbox" aria-checked="true">Sort by Last Modified</li>

Please include an explanation that describes this interaction and include additional bullet items for applicable selectors (ex. for :checked, any other element that has an aria-checked state).
Comment 1 Henri Sivonen 2010-01-14 13:01:15 UTC 
I'd expect :checked not to match aria-checked=true, because:
 1) ARIA is supposed be AT-sensitive without having other side effects (unless explicitly styled with attribute selectors).
 2) Attribute selectors can be used with ARIA anyway.
Comment 2 Michael Cooper 2010-02-11 17:18:33 UTC 
The HTML Accessibility Task Force intends to track these issues, per the proposal at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2010Jan/0245.html.
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-02-23 06:28:07 UTC 
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Status: Did Not Understand Request
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: Wouldn't this be a question for for either the ARIA spec or the Selectors spec?

(As it happens I concur with hsivonen and don't think ARIA should affect selectors, but that doesn't seem to be in the HTML spec's bailiwick.)
Comment 4 Michael Cooper 2010-09-28 15:49:19 UTC 
http://www.w3.org/2010/09/28-a11y-bugs-minutes.html Josh to get PFWG to address this issue with CSS WG, will cycle back to this when that issue is closed.
Comment 5 David Bolter 2010-09-29 15:44:32 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> I'd expect :checked not to match aria-checked=true, because:
>  1) ARIA is supposed be AT-sensitive without having other side effects

Agreed 100%.
Comment 6 Michael Cooper 2010-10-05 15:33:23 UTC 
Bug triage sub-team has decided that this bug does not need to be addressed in the context of the HTML specification, but can be incorporated into the ARIA to HTML mapping document that is under development.