- From: John Foliot <john.foliot@deque.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 13:23:44 -0500
- To: Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs@igalia.com>
- Cc: ARIA Admin <public-aria-admin@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CAKdCpxy+5Ydigrxtn9yRU94VCYe+t-KmNZKQDQ7TqFOE49HPww@mail.gmail.com>
Provisional +1 Recognizing the current situation, and realizing that the WG wishes to still conditionally move forward, Deque Systems supports the plan, while reserving the right to withdraw support should the additional 3 tests at https://w3c.github.io/test-results/wai-aria/less-than-2.html not emerge with positive results. JF On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 1:03 PM, Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs@igalia.com> wrote: > 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 > > -- John Foliot Principal Accessibility Strategist Deque Systems Inc. john.foliot@deque.com Advancing the mission of digital accessibility and inclusion
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