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

Dear WAI Interest Group,

Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.1 [1] (DPUB-ARIA) and Digital 
Publishing Accessibility API Mappings 1.1 [2] (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 [3].

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

-- 
Tamsin Ewing (she/her)
Accessibility Content Specialist
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
W3C/People/Tamsin [4]

Links:
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[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/dpub-aria-1.1/
[2] https://www.w3.org/TR/dpub-aam-1.1/
[3] https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/aria/
[4] https://www.w3.org/staff/#tamsin