FW: DPUB-ARIA and DPUB-AAM are now Web Standards (W3C Recommendations)

FYI, the new revision is now official…

 

From: Tamsin Ewing <tamsin@w3.org> 
Sent: June 11, 2025 11:16 PM
To: public-wai-announce@w3.org
Cc: w3c@nurthen.com; spectranaut@igalia.com; Daniel Montalvo <dmontalvo@w3.org>
Subject: DPUB-ARIA and DPUB-AAM are now Web Standards (W3C Recommendations)

 

Dear WAI Interest Group,

Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.1 <https://www.w3.org/TR/dpub-aria-1.1/>  (DPUB-ARIA) and Digital Publishing Accessibility API Mappings 1.1 <https://www.w3.org/TR/dpub-aam-1.1/>  (DPUB-AAM) have been published as web standards (W3C Recommendations).


About Digital Publishing ARIA standards


DPUB-ARIA defines a set of ARIA roles to help assistive technology users navigate structural divisions of long-form digital documents, such as eBooks.

DPUB-AAM defines how user agents (such as eBook readers) map the DPUB-ARIA markup to platform accessibility APIs.

Most relevant changes to the specifications since 1.0 include:

* added role doc-page-header
* added role doc-page-footer
* mappings updates to accessibility application programming interfaces (APIs)

For an introduction to WAI-ARIA, see WAI-ARIA Overview <https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/aria/> .


Thanks


W3C thanks everyone who contributed to these documents — see the lists of editors at the top of the documents and contributors in the ‘Acknowledgements’ sections.

Regards,
Tamsin Ewing, Accessibility Content Specialist, on behalf of:

James Nurthen and Valerie Young — ARIA Working Group Chairs
Daniel Montalvo — W3C Team Contact for the ARIA Working Group
Kevin White — W3C Accessibility Technical Lead
Shawn Lawton Henry — W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Program Lead

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Tamsin Ewing (she/her)
Accessibility Content Specialist
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

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