RE: Edge moving to Chromium

Hi folks,

Thanks for asking! We don’t expect any changes in scope to UIA mappings. Per the Chromium contribution process, there’s an explainer [1] and an intent-to-implement thread with the Chromium devs [2] you can follow along with if you’re curious. I don’t want to speak for the Chromium devs but we’re thrilled that they’d like to work with us on completing UIA support in Chromium!

Cheers,
Melanie

1: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers/blob/master/UIA/explainer.md

2: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/h4HTt4M5dWo


From: McCarthy, Mark C <mcmccar2@uillinois.edu>
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2018 5:55 PM
To: Matt King <a11ythinker@gmail.com>; 'ARIA Working Group' <public-aria@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Edge moving to Chromium

I’ve been wondering about this too and am keen to learn from y’all!

Stay rad,
Mark
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From: Matt King <a11ythinker@gmail.com<mailto:a11ythinker@gmail.com>>
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2018 7:53 PM
To: 'ARIA Working Group'
Subject: Edge moving to Chromium

This is big news for ARIA. What does it mean for UIA mappings?

-------- Article on a Microsoft Blog -------
Microsoft Edge: Making the web better through more open source collaboration

For the past few years, Microsoft has meaningfully increased participation in the open source software (OSS) community, becoming one of the world’s largest supporters of OSS projects. Today we’re announcing that we intend to adopt the Chromium open source project in the development of Microsoft Edge on the desktop to create better web compatibility for our customers and less fragmentation of the web for all web developers.

Read the complete article at:
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/12/06/microsoft-edge-making-the-web-better-through-more-open-source-collaboration/#p4xBTcVeKWqAB5gA.97<https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblogs.windows.com%2Fwindowsexperience%2F2018%2F12%2F06%2Fmicrosoft-edge-making-the-web-better-through-more-open-source-collaboration%2F%23p4xBTcVeKWqAB5gA.97&data=02%7C01%7CMelanie.Richards%40microsoft.com%7Cd3208f47dc5a485a05a308d65f0bc496%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636800901483462853&sdata=Qf7TjcUnhbXu%2F1I9Hb9qu%2FhR8%2Bzdmuwz3ZohD9lNC7Y%3D&reserved=0>

Best,
Matt King