Re: ARIA 1.1 to advance to PR

+1

On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 3:30 PM Siegman, Tzviya - Hoboken <
tsiegman@wiley.com> wrote:

> +1
>
> Tzviya Siegman
> Information Standards Lead
> Wiley
> 201-748-6884 <(201)%20748-6884>
> tsiegman@wiley.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joanmarie Diggs [mailto:jdiggs@igalia.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 2:03 PM
> To: ARIA Admin <public-aria-admin@w3.org>
> Subject: 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
>
>