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

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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.

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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.

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Current status
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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>

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Action to take
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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

Received on Friday, 19 May 2017 13:20:03 UTC