RE: 48-Hour Call for Consensus (CfC): Advance DPub AAM to Candidate Recommendation

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gunderson, Jon R [mailto:jongund@illinois.edu]
> Sent: Friday, May 19, 2017 9:17 AM
> To: Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs@igalia.com>; ARIA Admin <public-aria-
> admin@w3.org>
> Cc: Siegman, Tzviya - Hoboken <tsiegman@wiley.com>
> Subject: RE: 48-Hour Call for Consensus (CfC): Advance DPub AAM to Candidate
> Recommendation
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joanmarie Diggs [mailto:jdiggs@igalia.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2017 11:23 AM
> To: ARIA Admin <public-aria-admin@w3.org>
> Cc: Siegman, Tzviya - Hoboken <tsiegman@wiley.com>
> Subject: 48-Hour Call for Consensus (CfC): Advance DPub AAM to Candidate
> Recommendation
>
> This is a Call for Consensus (CfC) to the Accessible Rich Internet Applications
> (ARIA) Working Group to advance the Digital Publishing Accessibility API
> Mappings (DPub AAM) [1] to Candidate Recommendation.
>
> ==============================================
> Background regarding the need for a second CfC
> ==============================================
>
> As you may be aware, there was a CfC to advance DPub AAM to CR back in
> February [2], which received only votes of support. Thus the steps taken to
> advance the spec were begun. However, W3C management asked several
> questions about the stated exit criteria. After some discussion with them, my
> conclusion (as co-chair of the ARIA Working Group) was that the W3C
> management was correct and that it would be beneficial for all stakeholders to
> make the stated exit criteria more concrete and precise.
>
> Around that same time, I (as a developer contributing to WebKit) began
> implementation of the mappings specified in the DPub AAM for ATK/AT-SPI2 and
> noticed some problems with several of the mappings for AX API and one mistake
> in the mappings for my own platform. Shortly thereafter, I discovered that the
> mappings of DPub's landmark roles for UIA were inconsistent with the mappings
> for ARIA's landmark roles for UIA.
> Because multiple normative changes to DPub AAM were needed, and because
> we had not yet transitioned this spec to CR due to the aforementioned issue
> with the exit criteria statement, it seemed wiser to me that we fix all of the
> issues first and then (re)request transition of DPub AAM to CR.
>
> ==============
> Current status
> ==============
>
> The issues in the mappings have been fixed and committed to the spec [3][4]. In
> addition, the testable statements have been written and added to W3C's test
> suite [5]. Test results have also been generated for both AX API and ATK/AT-SPI2
> [6]. At the present time, Safari's implementation is 100% complete and passing.
> WebKitGtk's is 100% complete and has only one failure (which I, as a developer,
> am addressing currently). Thus we're well on our way to proving the mappings
> stated in DPub AAM are correct and fully implementable.
>
> Michael has updated the DPub AAM for final review and approval [7]. The
> updated exit criteria are in the appendix, referenced from the Status and at [8].
> For your convenience the exit criteria statement is as follows:
>
> <quote>
> For this specification to advance to Proposed Recommendation, it has to be
> shown that mappings defined in this specification are implemented on the target
> platforms. Consistent with the plan for the Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module
> 1.0 [dpub-aria-1.0] (Dpub-ARIA), the requirement is that each role is successfully
> mapped in at least two implementations and each implementation maps at least
> 75% of the roles.
> </quote>
>
> ==============
> Action to take
> ==============
>
> This CfC is now open for objection, comment, as well as statements of support
> via email. Silence will be interpreted as support, though messages of support are
> certainly welcome.
>
> If you object to this proposed action, or have comments concerning this
> proposal, please respond by replying on list to this message no later than 17:00
> Boston Time, Monday 22 May.
>
> --joanie
>
> [1] https://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/DPubAAM_CR/dpub-aam/dpub-aam.html

> [2] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-aria-admin/2017Feb/0000.html

> [3] https://github.com/w3c/aria/commit/79b1c4e

> [4] https://github.com/w3c/aria/commit/d0c0401

> [5] http://www.w3c-test.org/dpub-aam/

> [6] https://w3c.github.io/test-results/dpub-aam/all.html

> [7] https://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/2017-05_review/dpub-aam/dpub-aam.html

> [8]
> https://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/2017-05_review/dpub-aam/dpub-

> aam.html#exit_criteria


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