Changes in HTML5.3

Hello APA,

In case I don't make the call this week, here is an overview of the 
changes of interest to APA, in the HTML5.3 specification.

All substantive changes are documented in the Changelog [1]. Of these, 
the following changes have particular relevance to accessibility:

- Focusing the dialog instead of the first focusable element (if there 
are no auto-focusable elements):
https://github.com/w3c/html/pull/1331

This fixes issue #773:
https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/773

This feature is marked at risk. It changes the default focus behaviour 
of the <dialog> element, so that focus is placed on the <dialog> element 
when the dialog opens, instead of the first focusable element inside it.

- <caption> end tag can be omitted:
https://github.com/w3c/html/pull/1204

This fixes issue #1158:
https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/1158

This updates the spec to reflect the reality that the </caption> end tag 
can be omitted.

- Adds autofill warning:
https://github.com/w3c/html/pull/1372

This fixes issue #1285:
https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/1285

This was requested by WCAG WG. It adds a warning that UA (browsers, 
password managers etc.) should not allow data to be autofilled on fields 
that are not visible within the current viewport.


- Fixed discrepancies between the HTML and ARIA in HTML specs:
https://github.com/w3c/html/pull/1133

This fixes issue #894:
https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/894

This fixes a number of differences between information in the ARIA in 
HTML authoring conformance rules, and the HTML specification.

- Adds autocapitalize attribute:
https://github.com/w3c/html/pull/1072

This fixes issue #208:
https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/208

This adds the autocapitalize attribute to the HTML spec.


If you have any comments about these changes, or any other matters, 
please file issues on the HTML Github repo [2], and use the labels "wide 
review" and "a11y". Thanks.

Léonie.
[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/html53/changes
[2] https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/new

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Received on Monday, 7 May 2018 19:09:02 UTC