Re: Changes to WHATWG HTML

Congrats, Steve. This is good news, especially as the WHAT relationship
has at times been quite strained.

Janina

Steven Faulkner writes:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have been working with editors of the WHATWG HTML spec to reduce the
> differences between the conformance and implementation requirements related
> to ARIA use on HTML elements and also the HTML accessibility mappings.
> 
> I am pleased to report that my pull request was accepted and WHATWG HTML
> https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/dom.html#wai-aria now references:
> *ARIA in HTML* https://w3c.github.io/html-aria/ for author conformance
> requirements and HTML Accessibility API Mappings 1.0
> https://w3c.github.io/aria/html-aam/html-aam.html for browser requirements
> for mapping HTML features to accessibility APIs
> 
> 
> --
> 
> Regards
> 
> SteveF
> Current Standards Work @W3C
> <http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2015/03/current-standards-work-at-w3c/>

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Received on Friday, 11 September 2015 15:45:21 UTC