ARIA Working Group weekly meeting minutes, February 26, 2026

Hello friends,

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Here are the minutes for today’s weekly meeting (February 26, 2026)<https://www.w3.org/2026/02/26-aria-minutes.html>.

Cheers,

Adam Page, CPWA
Manager, Accessibility Center of Excellence
Hilton. For the Stay.<http://www.hilton.com/>
From: James Nurthen (W3C Calendar) <noreply+calendar@w3.org>
Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 10:33 AM
To: Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group <public-aria@w3.org>
Subject: Event Updated: ARIA Working Group weekly meeting


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ARIA Working Group weekly meeting Upcoming Confirmed

26 February 2026, 13:00 -14:00 America/New_York

Event is recurring Weekly on Thursday, starting from 25 December 2025, until 31 December 2027

Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group<https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/aria/calendar/>

Agenda

  *   New PR Triage<https://github.com/search?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+created:%3E=2026-02-19+repo:w3c/aria&type=Issues>
  *   WPT Open PRs<https://bit.ly/wpt_a11y>
  *   Deep Dive - Meeting with CSS - not finalised yet - more details forthcoming
  *   Wide review working drafts - HTML-AAM to start then other AAMs need to go through CR process so we will create snapshots and ask for wide review.
  *   New controls attribute for img element<https://github.com/w3c/html-aam/issues/601>
  *   Scoping focusgroup to scenarios defined by aria roles - 5 minutes for inital thoughts only<https://github.com/w3c/aria/issues/2602>
  *   check mappings and a11y of HTMLButtonElement's declarative scroll commands<https://github.com/w3c/html-aam/issues/600>
  *   Potential heuristic standardization: how does/should event delegation play into screen readers conveying "clickable"<https://github.com/w3c/html-aam/issues/599>


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  *   Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group<https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/aria/> (View Calendar<https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/aria/calendar/>)

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