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

The timeline for ARIA deliverables is maintained at:

https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/project

There are links to it from the ARIA home page and charter. I'm not clear 
how easy the structure of the page is to understand, can address input 
on that if needed.

Michael


On 19/10/2016 12:20 PM, Rich Schwerdtfeger wrote:
> 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
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>> On Oct 18, 2016, at 6:35 PM, Michael Cooper <cooper@w3.org 
>> <mailto: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
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>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Michael
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