APG plans and a major change to the editors' draft of ARIA authoring Practices Guide

To anyone following the development of the 1.1 APG,

 

On a regular basis, the APG task force has received feedback on out-of-date
content that we have not yet touched. At the same time, the TF has received
little feedback on completed work. One reason for this is that, even with
editor's notes indicating which sections have not yet been updated, it has
been difficult for readers to find the completed work that needs review.

 

To help resolve this issue and make it easier for the task force to evaluate
the state of the APG, last weekend I pushed a monster commit that reduces
the APG editors' draft to only completed work. For all content that was
removed and will be updated or replaced, I raised a corresponding issue and
added it to our milestone plan. The result, for now, is a pretty skinny APG.
However, it makes it much easier to know when we have reached a state of
minimum viability.

 

You can find a detailed commit statement with links to the issues I raised
here:

https://github.com/w3c/aria-practices/commit/eabf6ca5a102af42f876ff4856e92c8
5b735cecd

 

We will publish a working draft in 4Q, perhaps about December 1, that will
cover all ARIA 1.0 and a few aspects of 1.1. Our next milestone after that
will add what is minimally require for ARIA 1.1. You can see our milestone
plan here:

https://github.com/w3c/aria-practices/milestones

 

And, as usual you can find the editors' draft here:

http://w3c.github.io/aria-practices/

 

Matt