Bug 311881

Summary: AX: align with other browsers on handling of focused elements and aria-hidden
Product: WebKit Reporter: Dominic Mazzoni <dm_mazzoni>
Component: AccessibilityAssignee: Dominic Mazzoni <dm_mazzoni>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: Normal CC: andresg_22, webkit-bug-importer
Priority: P2 Keywords: InRadar
Version: WebKit Nightly Build   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   

Dominic Mazzoni
Reported 2026-04-09 16:49:48 PDT
Discussed here: https://github.com/w3c/aria/pull/2181#discussion_r2002079011 The consensus seems to be that if focus lands inside an aria-hidden region, and an event handler doesn't move focus elsewhere before one animation frame, then the aria-hidden flag should be ignored and that region should be essentially permanently un-hidden. Previously, WebKit's behavior was to ignore aria-hidden when focus was inside but not persist that change.
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Comment 1 2026-04-09 16:49:54 PDT
Dominic Mazzoni
Comment 2 2026-04-09 16:52:48 PDT
EWS
Comment 3 2026-04-20 22:30:23 PDT
Committed 311648@main (758417724261): <https://commits.webkit.org/311648@main> Reviewed commits have been landed. Closing PR #62396 and removing active labels.
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