RE: Formal request to donate and publish the Accessibility Tree Training Guide as a Note

+1 to the idea!
This is one of the best, if not the best, ARIA guide documentation that I
have come across on the web, and I have done quite extensive research.


-----Original Message-----
From: Bryan Garaventa [mailto:bryan.garaventa@ssbbartgroup.com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 4, 2014 7:54 PM
To: W3C WAI Protocols & Formats
Subject: Formal request to donate and publish the Accessibility Tree
Training Guide as a Note

Hello,
If I may, I would like to make a formal request to donate the content of the
Accessibility Tree Training Guide to the W3C, and request that this content
be published as a Note, in order to increase practical knowledge of ARIA for
engineers and educators who are currently struggling to do so using
outdated, widely dispersed, and sometimes incorrect training materials
worldwide.

For review, the current text is available at http://whatsock.com/training/
The personal references at the beginning and end can of course be removed,
and the content modified to fit the documentation standards of the W3C as
desired.

The goal of this guide is to address a critical issue worldwide, which is
the lack of practical knowledge by the majority of common web developers who
are unfamiliar with the platform level aspects of ARIA, explaining how to
recognize these connections, how to test for these connections during
development, how to locate relevant spec documentation and samples for each
within context, how to recognize the differences between browser and
Assistive Technology bugs regarding ARIA support, how to recognize key
differences between differing Assistive Technology types as they relate to
ARIA support, and to provide a single location where all of this information
can be obtained and referenced with the greatest level of accuracy possible.

Since screen reader and browser support will evolve as ARIA does also, I
expect that this would be a living document, which I would be happy to
continue maintaining and editing if this is agreeable.

My hope is that, if published as a Note, we can ensure that developers who
have a basic background in HTML and JavaScript with little to no knowledge
of ARIA, can read through this guide from beginning to end, follow the W3C
references as guide posts as instructed, learn how to be familiar with and
test using the most common Assistive Technologies, and thereby result in a
good understanding of how ARIA works and should be implemented to ensure the
greatest level of accessibility possible.

Sincerely,
Bryan Garaventa

Received on Friday, 5 September 2014 01:06:57 UTC