Re: Normative reference from ARIA 1.1 to UI Events KeyboardEvent key Values

Hi Michael, 

I spoke with Leonie and she is working on the timeline for us with the editors of the spec. Would you please provide me with the updated timeline that was sent to PLH here so that Leonie can see it?

Thanks, 
Rich
Rich Schwerdtfeger




> On Oct 18, 2016, at 6:35 PM, Michael Cooper <cooper@w3.org> wrote:
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> The ARIA 1.1 aria-keyshortcuts property:
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> https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.1/#aria-keyshortcuts <https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.1/#aria-keyshortcuts>
> has a normative reference to  UI Events KeyboardEvent key Values. That document, however, is just a Working Draft. It is not permitted for a specification to advance to Recommendation while normative dependencies exist on specifications that have not themselves yet advanced to Recommendation. Do we expect this spec will reach Recommendation by the time we want ARIA to (April 2017)? If not we have a problem.
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> The quickest fix I can think of is to change the "must" to a "should" in the reference to that spec, in the sentence "Authors MUST specify modifier keys exactly according to...". But that's a substantive change, that we would have to agree quickly because the formal transition to CR is scheduled for next week.
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> Michael