ARIA spec says that aria-selected is applied to role menuitemradio (http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/roles#menuitemradio). It doesn't say this about menuitem and menuitemcheckbox which is I believe ARIA spec error. I suggest to enable aria-selected for all types of ARIA menuitem.

David, do you agree that we should break the spec here?

I think so. BTW I once argued that all aria state/properties should be global but didn't win (yet). Is there pushback from active ARIA people? I see it inherits aria-selected from the radio superclass (which inherits it from the option super-superclass). In gecko we've allowed menu items to have the selected state for 100 years. I wonder if there is a nuance the ARIA editors are trying to uncover. Perhaps between the idea of "selected for some later activity" vs "selected as indicating/activating some persistent state even when dismissed". I dunno.

(In reply to David Bolter [:davidb] from comment #2) > I wonder if there is a nuance the ARIA editors are trying to uncover. > Perhaps between the idea of "selected for some later activity" vs "selected > as indicating/activating some persistent state even when dismissed". I dunno. Although checked works for that.

(In reply to David Bolter [:davidb] from comment #2) > I think so. BTW I once argued that all aria state/properties should be > global but didn't win (yet). Less work for a browser vendor, more confusion for AT. I'm not sure who is best for error correction. > Is there pushback from active ARIA people? No, just suggesting to be consistent and do what we do for UI

(In reply to alexander :surkov from comment #4) > (In reply to David Bolter [:davidb] from comment #2) > > I think so. BTW I once argued that all aria state/properties should be > > global but didn't win (yet). > > Less work for a browser vendor, more confusion for AT. I'm not sure who is > best for error correction. My thinking is more about patterns (like in UIA) than about restricting states to certain roles. HTML + js allows quite a UI playground.

Note, we don't fire selection change events on desktop menus, IE doesn't expose selectable/selected states on menus (except top level menu which has selectable state). It seems like focusable/focused states + focus events is enough for menus. Probably ARIA doesn't need to allow aria-selected on menuitems.

if the issue https://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/Group/track/issues/504 is resolved then we can close this