Weekly github digest (Weekly ARIA WG Github activity)

Issues
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* w3c/aria (+3/-2/💬9)
  3 issues created:
  - Are there use cases for logical properties in aria-orientation? (by pkra)
    https://github.com/w3c/aria/issues/2750 [question] 
  - gathering ideas for browser dev tools improvements and what to do about them (by pkra)
    https://github.com/w3c/aria/issues/2748 [F2FCandidate] [deep-dive] 
  - getParticipants script not working when exporting respec (by daniel-montalvo)
    https://github.com/w3c/aria/issues/2746 

  9 issues received 9 new comments:
  - #2750 Are there use cases for logical properties in aria-orientation? (1 by scottaohara)
    https://github.com/w3c/aria/issues/2750 [question] 
  - #2739 authoring errors, name-from-author, and exposure (1 by css-meeting-bot)
    https://github.com/w3c/aria/issues/2739 [question] 
  - #2737 aria-busy="true" with descendant invalid ARIA structure (1 by css-meeting-bot)
    https://github.com/w3c/aria/issues/2737 [Agenda] 
  - #2556 Should aria-activedescendant targets still require an id in order to receive the focusable state? (1 by pkra)
    https://github.com/w3c/aria/issues/2556 [good medium issue] 
  - #1983 Why does role=none|presentation only prohibit aria-label and aria-labelledby (1 by pkra)
    https://github.com/w3c/aria/issues/1983 [clarification] 
  - #1962 Accessibility tree visualizer: a DevTools proposal (1 by pkra)
    https://github.com/w3c/aria/issues/1962 [editorial] 
  - #1877 Meta: tooling is not strict (1 by pkra)
    https://github.com/w3c/aria/issues/1877 [editorial] 
  - #1263 Characteristics of Roles section needs tidying up (1 by pkra)
    https://github.com/w3c/aria/issues/1263 [editorial] 
  - #1038 Requesting new feature for label synonyms (1 by cookiecrook)
    https://github.com/w3c/aria/issues/1038 [feature] 

  2 issues closed:
  - Should the ARIA WG standardize heuristic-based ignoring of ARIA and related features? And if so, how? https://github.com/w3c/aria/issues/2422 
  - Characteristics of Roles section needs tidying up https://github.com/w3c/aria/issues/1263 [editorial] 

* w3c/core-aam (+0/-0/💬1)
  1 issues received 1 new comments:
  - #258 Create more machine readable source of truth for mapping tables - use for tests also (1 by pkra)
    https://github.com/w3c/core-aam/issues/258 

* w3c/html-aam (+0/-0/💬2)
  2 issues received 2 new comments:
  - #600 check mappings and a11y of HTMLButtonElement's declarative scroll commands (1 by davidsgrogan)
    https://github.com/w3c/html-aam/issues/600 [Agenda] 
  - #599 Potential heuristic standardization: how does/should event delegation play into screen readers conveying "clickable" (1 by jnurthen)
    https://github.com/w3c/html-aam/issues/599 

* w3c/svg-aam (+1/-0/💬1)
  1 issues created:
  - allowed roles for a (by pkra)
    https://github.com/w3c/svg-aam/issues/46 [question] 

  1 issues received 1 new comments:
  - #46 allowed roles for a (1 by pkra)
    https://github.com/w3c/svg-aam/issues/46 [question] 



Pull requests
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* w3c/aria (+2/-0/💬21)
  2 pull requests submitted:
  - 2749  (by copilot-swe-agent)
    https://github.com/w3c/aria/pull/2749 
  - 2747  (by pkra)
    https://github.com/w3c/aria/pull/2747 

  10 pull requests received 21 new comments:
  - #2749 Editorial: Add workflow to automatically close stale draft pull requests (1 by netlify)
    https://github.com/w3c/aria/pull/2749 
  - #2747 editorial: fix buildRoleInfo.js (3 by github-actions, netlify, pkra)
    https://github.com/w3c/aria/pull/2747 [editorial] 
  - #2745 editorial: aria.js clean-up (1 by pkra)
    https://github.com/w3c/aria/pull/2745 [editorial] 
  - #2744 Experiment with JSON to generate Core-AAM mapping tables (1 by pkra)
    https://github.com/w3c/aria/pull/2744 [spec:core-aam] 
  - #2740 chore: dependabot: bump actions/download-artifact from 7 to 8 (1 by github-actions)
    https://github.com/w3c/aria/pull/2740 [dependencies] [github_actions] 
  - #2670 Change tooltip to name prohibited (4 by pkra, spectranaut)
    https://github.com/w3c/aria/pull/2670 [Agenda] [spec:aria] [needs ACT review] 
  - #2533 [Core-AAM] Update role=scrollbar AXAPI platform mappings (2 by github-actions, netlify)
    https://github.com/w3c/aria/pull/2533 [spec:core-aam] 
  - #2181 Expectations for aria-hidden and focused elements (2 by pkra, spectranaut)
    https://github.com/w3c/aria/pull/2181 [Agenda] [spec:aria] 
  - #2022 Additions for AT support of aria-roledescription (1 by pkra)
    https://github.com/w3c/aria/pull/2022 [No consensus] [spec:aria] 
  - #1794 add aria-labelsynonyms (5 by cookiecrook, pkra)
    https://github.com/w3c/aria/pull/1794 [spec:aria] 

* w3c/html-aria (+2/-0/💬0)
  2 pull requests submitted:
  - 574  (by daniel-montalvo)
    https://github.com/w3c/html-aria/pull/574 
  - 573  (by daniel-montalvo)
    https://github.com/w3c/html-aria/pull/573 


Repositories tracked by this digest:
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* https://github.com/w3c/aria
* https://github.com/w3c/core-aam
* https://github.com/w3c/html-aam
* https://github.com/w3c/accname
* https://github.com/w3c/dpub-aam
* https://github.com/w3c/dpub-aria
* https://github.com/w3c/mathml-aam
* https://github.com/w3c/html-aria
* https://github.com/w3c/svg-aam
* https://github.com/w3c/graphics-aria


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Received on Tuesday, 17 March 2026 17:01:16 UTC