Question : in carousel pattern, use of aria-disabled

[cescarment]

In the carousel ARIA design pattern :
https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices-1.1/#carousel

In grouped carousel elements case, why the picker button representing the currently displayed slide has the property aria-disabled set to true instead of aria-current ? Wouldn't aria-current make more sense here ?

[carmacleod]

Good question. The APG doesn't have an example that uses grouped carousel elements, so I suspect that section of the pattern has not been reviewed in a long time.

In case it's helpful, please note that the draft APG has a new carousel example that uses a Tabs control (which is basically the same thing as a grouped set of buttons with tab/tablist/tabpanel -related markup... and of course in this case, aria-selected="true" is used to identify the currently-selected item).