Aria-selected attribute for row selection in a grid

Question

aria-selected attribute is used to indicate that a row in a grid is selected, When I use the jaws keys to navigate to selected row in the grid, its not being read as selected. Any clue/suggestion to make this work right?

I am using the latest FF and Jaws 12

Answer 1

According to this link Jaws should support this. See the table in the "ARIA States" section. Its possible Firefox may not support the selected attribute, have you tested with the latest version of Internet Explorer? Unfortunately I have not found an exhaustive comparison of what Aria features are supported across all browsers so I would recommend testing with both Firefox and Internet explorer. You may also want to give NVDA a try as a screen reader since it may support some ARIA features Jaws won't.