Event Updated: Bi-Weekly Meeting of Assistive Technology Automation Subgroup of ARIA-AT Community Group

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 Bi-Weekly Meeting of Assistive Technology Automation Subgroup of ARIA-AT Community Group Upcoming Confirmed
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 25 September 2023, 12:00 -13:00 America/Los\_Angeles

 Event is recurring every other week on Monday, starting from 2023-02-27, until 2023-12-31

[ ARIA and Assistive Technologies Community Group ](https://www.w3.org/groups/cg/aria-at/calendar/)This group is developing a draft proposal for a W3C AT Driver Specification.

GitHub repository: <https://github.com/w3c/aria-at-automation>

 Agenda
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Update on lessons learned from TPAC 2023
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At [this year's TPAC](https://www.w3.org/2023/09/TPAC/), we learned a lot about the needs of implementers and standards editors. This has inspired changes to various aspects of ARIA-AT, ARIA-AT automation, and [the AT Driver protocol](https://w3c.github.io/at-driver/), so we'll kick off this meeting with a run-down of the most important lessons.

Scope of AT Driver: is this now a protocol solely for the web?
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Following discussions at TPAC 2023, we expect the AT Driver protocol to be limited to use in web browsing contexts only. As we begin to reflect this in the proposed specification language, we'd like to consider if there are any meaningful precautions we can take to enable expansion beyond the web in the future.

Running ARIA-AT with a protocol built on "user intent"
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Following discussions at TPAC 2023, we expect to reimagine the way the AT Driver protocol enables the scripting of end-user interactions. Rather than allowing developers to simulate arbitrary sequences of keyboard key presses, AT Driver will define a set of contextual actions (e.g. "move to the next heading"), and we will publish a separate informative document defining key mappings for some assistive technology products.

What does this mean for ARIA-AT, a project which defines tests in terms of specific sequences of keyboard key presses?

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 Participants
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### Organizers

- Michael Pennisi

### Groups

- [ARIA and Assistive Technologies Community Group](https://www.w3.org/groups/cg/aria-at/) ([View Calendar](https://www.w3.org/groups/cg/aria-at/calendar/))

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