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

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Tzviya Siegman
Information Standards Lead
Wiley
201-748-6884
tsiegman@wiley.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Schwerdtfeger [mailto:richschwer@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2017 8:21 PM
To: Joanmarie Diggs
Cc: ARIA Admin; Siegman, Tzviya - Hoboken
Subject: Re: 48-Hour Call for Consensus (CfC): Advance DPub AAM to Candidate Recommendation

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> On May 18, 2017, at 11:23 AM, Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs@igalia.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.ht
> ml [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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