First Public Working Draft: Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.1

Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.1

https://www.w3.org/TR/2021/WD-dpub-aria-1.1-20210826/

Published by
 Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group

Abstract

Enabling users of assistive technologies to find their way through web content requires embedding semantic metadata about web document structural divisions. This is particularly important for structural divisions of long-form documents and goes along with embedding semantic metadata about web-application widgets and behaviors for assistive technologies. This specification defines a set of WAI-ARIA roles specific to helping users of assistive technologies navigate through such long-form documents. 

This document is part of the WAI-ARIA suite described in the WAI-ARIA Overview.

Status of the Document

This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. Other documents may supersede this document. A list of current W3C publications and the latest revision of this technical report can be found in the W3C technical reports index at https://www.w3.org/TR/. 

The primary aim of the Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.1 is to address some bugs discovered since the release of the original module. These fixes are mostly minor in nature – ranging from simple typos in the text and examples, to some issues around how accessible names are computed. 

There are a couple of significant changes proposed in this revision to be aware of, however. They are: 
 
  * The doc-endnote and doc-bilbioentry roles are being deprecated due to their incompatibility with the core ARIA inheritance model for roles (i.e., ARIA’s list role cannot be satisfied by list item roles in a module); and 
  * The introduction of doc-pageheader and doc-pagefooter for identifying running headers and footers (e.g., so readers can choose whether to suppress the repetitive content they contain).  

For a complete list of changes addressed in this revision, please refer to the change log. 

This document was published by the Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group as a First Public Working Draft. This document is intended to become a W3C Recommendation.

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Publication as a First Public Working Draft does not imply endorsement by the W3C Membership.

This is a draft document and may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite this document as other than work in progress.



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