- From: Shawn Henry <shawn@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2023 21:50:21 -0500
- To: public-wai-announce@w3.org
Dear WAI Interest Group, We are pleased to announce that Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.2 is now a "W3C Recommendation" Web Standard. It is available from: https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.2/ For an introduction to WAI-ARIA and related resources, see: WAI-ARIA Overview https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/aria/ About WAI-ARIA 1.2: Accessibility of web content requires semantic information about widgets, structures, and behaviors, in order to allow assistive technologies to convey appropriate information to persons with disabilities. This specification provides an ontology of roles, states, and properties that define accessible user interface elements and can be used to improve the accessibility and interoperability of web content and applications. These semantics are designed to allow an author to properly convey user interface behaviors and structural information to assistive technologies in document-level markup. This version adds features new since WAI-ARIA 1.1 to improve interoperability with assistive technologies to form a more consistent accessibility model for HTML and SVG2. For a list of what's changed since WAI-ARIA 1.1, see the changelog at: https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.2/#changelog The ARIA Working Group is working on additional support for Braille and other new features for ARIA 1.3. They are listed at: https://w3c.github.io/aria/#substantive-changes-targeted-for-the-1-3-release Regards, James Nurthen and Valerie Young, ARIA Working Group Co-Chairs Daniel Montalvo, W3C Staff Contact for ARIA Working Group -- Shawn Lawton Henry Accessibility Education and Communications Lead W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), MIT GitHub: @shawna-slh Twitter: @shawna_slh About: www.w3.org/People/Shawn
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