WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices 1.2

Get empowered to create accessible rich internet applications

Learn how to use ARIA to create an accessible Rich Internet Application. The ARIA Authoring Practices project provides guidance on the appropriate application of ARIA, describes recommended usage patterns, and explains concepts behind them.

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Our resources: Everything you need to make de Web Accessible

Recommended approaches to make widgets, navigation, and behaviors accessible using WAI-ARIA roles, states, and properties.

Design Patterns and widgets

Learn how to make common rich internet application patterns and widgets accessible by applying WAI-ARIA roles, states, and properties and implementing keyboard support.

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Use of ARIA landmarks

Learn how HTML sectioning elements and ARIA landmark roles are used to make it easy for assistive technology users to understand the meaning of the layout of a page.

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Providing Accessible Names and Descriptions

Providing elements with accessible names, and where appropriate, accessible descriptions is one of the most important responsibilities authors have when developing accessible web experiences.

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And so much more…

Learn about other fundamental accessibility resources and understand how to Provide Accessible Names and Descriptions, implement accessible Grid and Table properties, use Hiding Semantics, and more.

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Current Work: Check out our most recent work

Review the overall scope of work planned for the APG and supporting deliverables and the timelines for completing our work.

  • Release Plans

    Take a look at the plan overview for WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices, priorities and work in progress.

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  • Patterns Progress Status

    Status of work on design patterns and reference implementations of those patterns for the first release of the ARIA 1.1 Authoring Practices.

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  • How to write Regression Tests

    Learn what the APG Regression Tests test, how to run them and understand the results.

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  • Meetings

    The APG Task Force meets on Tuesdays at 14:00 until 15:00 Boston time.

    Minutes from previous meetings are available.

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Collaboration: Get involved with our community and our work

The APG Task Force conducts its work using a variety of synchronous and asynchronous tools. And there are several ways to get involved.

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Join our community

To contribute without joining the task force, see the ARIA Working Group contribute page for general instructions. To contribute to documents under development, see how to contribute to the source repository directly.

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Contribute to our project

To contribute without joining the task force, see the ARIA Working Group contribute page for general instructions. To contribute to documents under development, see how to contribute to the source repository directly.

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Mailing Lists

The APG Task Force uses the public-aria-practices@w3.org mailing list (mailing list archives) for email discussion. Participants are automatically added to the mailing list when they become a participant of the Task Force.

Discussions of the task force prior to September 2017 are archived on the public-aria mailing list.