Is there a state to show that an widget is active. For example a user tabs in a listbox and navigate with up and down keys through the items. Is there a state for the listbox that shows the user is in it?
A:
No, generally the user agent would be able to determine that through the DOM and the focus or active events. If for some reason you were wanting to be inside a list but not focused on an item, you could set aria-selected to false.
http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/states_and_properties#aria-selected
Jordan
2010-06-17 19:22:20