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?
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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?
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