Grid Pattern: Missing guidance for use of aria-selected to support column selection #772
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Resolve issue #772 by adding the following to the states and properties section of the grid pattern in aria-practices.html: `If the grid supports column selection and a column is selected, all cells in the column have <code>aria-selected</code> set to <code>true</code>.`
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H@dusek, thank you for catching this. I have made a fix in commit a0c06a9. If you think the fix is not adequate, feel free to re-open this issue. |
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The 3.11 Grid pattern discusses in its WAI-ARIA section the following item:
However the situation where a column is selected is not discussed, even though a keyboard shortcut of
Control + Spaceis recommended for column selection action both for layout and data grids.The reader reading the above-mentioned point is therefore left wondering whether e.g. WAI-ARIA does not support indicating column selection at the moment, or what workaround (e.g. set
aria-selected=trueon all cells in the selected column), if any, is or is not advised.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: