CfC: ARIA 1.1 to advance to PR

This is a Call for Consensus (CfC) to the ARIA Working Group regarding
advancing ARIA 1.1 to Proposed Recommendation:

Spec: https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.1/
Implementation report: https://w3c.github.io/test-results/wai-aria/

At this time, the only thing for which we (officially) lack two
implementations are related to the addition of aria-activedescendant as
a supported property of the application role and of the searchbox role
(as a consequence of that role being created as part of ARIA 1.1). The
results for those three tests can be seen here:
https://w3c.github.io/test-results/wai-aria/less-than-2.html. The reason
I say "(officially)" is that I suspect that Firefox's IAccessible2
implementation should be a PASS and not a FAIL, and that an issue in
Jon's ATTA might be the source of reported failures. In addition, if
Microsoft supplies us with the UIA ARIA 1.1 test results that they have
stated are forthcoming, that might be another source of a PASS for the
three tests in question.

Given the overall results, my belief that we actually have at least two
PASSes for all tests, and a rapidly-approaching W3C publishing
moratorium, I'm proceeding with the CfC now. While the Working Group
considers the question at hand, I will work towards resolving the actual
situation regarding the aforementioned three tests.

Action

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 proposal, or have comments concerning it, please
respond by replying on list to this message no later than 12:00 Boston
Time, Monday, 23 October 2017.

For objections only, please copy the main public-aria@w3.org list to
allow technical discussion of the objection to happen there.

Process

This CfC is conducted per the ARIA WG decision policy:
https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/decision-policy

Received on Tuesday, 17 October 2017 18:04:14 UTC