WAI-ARIA Last Call and WAI-ARIA User Agent Implementation Guide FPWD

Hi all,

We should pout this on our radar for group review.

Cheers,
Jan



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Transition Announcement: WAI-ARIA Last Call and WAI-ARIA User 
Agent Implementation Guide FPWD
Resent-Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:34:43 +0000
Resent-From: wai-xtech@w3.org
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:33:22 -0500
From: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
Organization: Capital Accessibility LLC 
(http://www.CapitalAccessibility.com)
To: chairs@w3.org, wai-xtech@w3.org, w3c-wai-pf@w3.org
CC: rubys@intertwingly.net, cwilso@microsoft.com, ed@opera.com, 
cam@mcc.id.au, Roland_Merrick@uk.ibm.com, steven@w3.org

The Protocols and Formats Working Group announces the *Last Call Working
Draft* of Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.0, and the
*First Public Working Draft* of WAI-ARIA User Agent Implementation Guide.

     * Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.0:
       http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-wai-aria-20090224/
     * WAI-ARIA User Agent Implementation Guide:
       http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-wai-aria-implementation-20090224/

Comments on these documents may be sent to public-pfwg-comments@w3.org
<mailto:public-pfwg-comments@w3.org?Subject=Comment%20on%20WAI-ARIA%20Role>.
Comments requiring discussion should be copied to wai-xtech@w3.org
<mailto:wai-xtech@w3.org>. Comments should be made by *24 March 2009*.
Comments received to date and current state of discussion may be
accessed from the PFWG tracking page on ARIA 1.0 Last Call comments at
http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/Group/track/products/12.

The Protocols and Formats Working Group resolved to request publication
of these documents on 18 February 2009:
http://www.w3.org/2009/02/18-pf-minutes#item03. The Transition Request
for WAI-ARIA User Agent Implementation Guide is archived at
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/chairs/2009JanMar/0032.html.

Requirements for WAI-ARIA are set out in Roadmap for Accessible Rich
Internet Applications:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-aria-roadmap-20071019/. These requirements
do not address specific features but describe the overall problem
WAI-ARIA sets out to solve. It is the opinion of the Working Group that
the feature set accomplishes this.

There have been no Formal Objections raised. Over the past year, the
PFWG engaged with members of the HTML WG, XHTML WG, SVG WG, and TAG
regarding how WAI-ARIA should be implemented in host languages, in a
manner that would be interoperable between XML-based languages (e.g.,
XHTML, SVG) and non XML-based languages (e.g., HTML 5). This required
compromise from all parties and would have been a cause of Formal
Objections were it not resolved.

In light of the above, the following Working Groups are particularly
requested to review WAI-ARIA 1.0:

     * HTML
     * XHTML
     * SVG

Patent information related to these documents may be accessed from
http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/32212/status.

Janina Sajka, WAI-PF Co-Chair

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Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (ATRC)
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University of Toronto

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