RE: Call for Review: Updates to WAI-ARIA 1.1, Accessibility API Mappings, and WAI-ARIA Practices

Hi Michael,

 

I'm dependent on everything via an Assistive Technology - a 'screen-reader'.

 

Thus, everything is a bit challenging.

 

However, all this is massively important for the folk I work with - the UK
National Health Service.

 

I will do my best to comment on all the materials in your email.

 

Would be good, too, to recognise that it's not easy for 'All' to contribute,
despite valuable inputs.

 

Massive thanks,

Howard

 

 

 

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Dr Howard Leicester

+44 (0)7789 965202

www.accessible-info.co.uk

 

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From: Michael Cooper [mailto:cooper@w3.org] 
Sent: 19 November 2015 15:25
To: WAI IG
Cc: Richard S. Schwerdtfeger
Subject: Call for Review: Updates to WAI-ARIA 1.1, Accessibility API
Mappings, and WAI-ARIA Practices

 

Dear WAI Interest Group Participants,

The W3C WAI Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group (ARIA WG)
invites you to comment on updated Working Drafts of:

* Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.1
   http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.1/
* Core Accessibility API Mappings 1.1 (Core-AAM)
   http://www.w3.org/TR/core-aam-1.1/
* Accessible Name and Description: Computation and API Mappings 1.1
(AccName-AAM)
   http://www.w3.org/TR/accname-aam-1.1/
* SVG Accessibility API Mappings 1.0 (SVG-AAM, jointly published with the
SVG Working Group)
   http://www.w3.org/TR/svg-aam-1.0/ 
* WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices 1.1
   http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices-1.1/ 

*About WAI-ARIA*: 

WAI-ARIA defines a way to make web content, particularly web applications,
more accessible to people with disabilities. It especially helps with
dynamic content and advanced user interface controls developed with Ajax,
HTML, JavaScript, and related technologies. WAI-ARIA works with existing web
content technologies, such as HTML and SVG, and provides a way to apply the
requirements of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 for rich web
applications. It is introduced in the WAI-ARIA Overview at
<http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria> <http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria>.

*About Core-AAM*:

Core Accessibility API Mappings (Core-AAM) describes how user agents should
expose content semantics (including WAI-ARIA semantics) to accessibility
APIs. Core-AAM defines support that applies across multiple content
technologies, including general keyboard navigation support and mapping of
general-purpose WAI-ARIA features. Other Accessibility API Mappings
specifications will depend on and extend this Core specification for
specific technologies, including native technology features and WAI-ARIA
extensions. Core-AAM will eventually supersede the guidance in the WAI-ARIA
1.0 User Agent Implementation Guide that is a W3C Recommendation.

*About AccName-AAM*:

Accessible Name and Description: Computation and API Mappings 1.1
(AccName-AAM) describes how user agents determine names and descriptions of
accessible objects from web content languages and expose them in
accessibility APIs. This allows assistive technologies to associate and
relay the name or description of objects to users. It contains content
previously published in WAI-ARIA 1.1 and Core Accessibility API Mappings
1.1. Moving that content to this specification eliminates duplication
between Core AAM and WAI-ARIA, and facilitates future host language-specific
accessible name guidance. The AccName-AAM defines support for
general-purpose WAI-ARIA roles, states, and properties as well as features
specific to individual content languages. 

*About SVG-AAM*:

SVG Accessibility API Mappings is intended for Scalable Vector Graphics
(SVG) user agent developers responsible for SVG accessibility in their user
agent. It defines how user agents map SVG markup to platform accessibility
application programming interfaces (APIs). When supported by user agents,
its features allow SVG authors to create accessible rich internet
applications, including charts, graphs, and other drawings. It does this by
extending the Core Accessibility API Mappings 1.1 (CORE-AAM) and the
Accessible Name and Description: Computation and API Mappings 1.1 to provide
SVG-specific guidance for how the SVG user agent must respond to keyboard
focus, native SVG features, and role, state and property attributes provided
via WAI-ARIA.

*About WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices*: 

WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices provides recommends approaches to help web
application developers make widgets, navigation, and behaviors accessible
using WAI-ARIA roles, states, and properties. It describes considerations
that might not be evident to most authors from the WAI-ARIA specification
which is oriented primarily at user agent implementers. 

*Transition of Working Groups*:

These documents are published by the Accessible Rich Internet Applications
Working Group  <http://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/> <http://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/>.
The the SVG-AAM is jointly published with the SVG Working Group
<http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/> <http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/>.

They were previously published by the Protocols and Formats Working Group
<http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/> <http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/>.

The documents have moved to new Working Groups because of changes in the set
of Working Groups chartered at W3C. The ARIA Working Group home page is now
where information about the development of WAI-ARIA is maintained.

*Versions*:

WAI-ARIA 1.0 is currently a W3C Recommendation. It remains the recommended
version for production user agent implementations and authors at this time.
WAI-ARIA 1.1 and the Accessibility API Mappings are Working Drafts and
subject to change. Eventually they are expected to advance to
Recommendation, at which point they would subsume WAI-ARIA 1.0. WAI-AIRA
Authoring Practice is a Working Draft eventually expected to advance to
Working Group Note. The stages of specification development are explained in
How WAI Develops Accessibility Guidelines through the W3C Process at:
<http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/w3c-process>
<http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/w3c-process>. 

The in-progress updates to WAI-ARIA 1.1 are available in an Editors' Draft
at  <http://w3c.github.io/aria/aria/aria.html>
<http://w3c.github.io/aria/aria/aria.html>.
The in-progress updates to Core Accessibility API Mappings 1.1 are available
in an Editors' Draft at  <http://w3c.github.io/aria/core-aam/core-aam.html>
<http://w3c.github.io/aria/core-aam/core-aam.html>.
The in-progress updates to AccName-AAM 1.1 are available in an Editors'
Draft at  <http://w3c.github.io/aria/accname-aam/accname-aam.html>
<http://w3c.github.io/aria/accname-aam/accname-aam.html>. 
The in-progress updates to SVG-AAM 1.0 are available in an Editors' Draft at
<http://w3c.github.io/aria/svg-aam/svg-aam.html>
<http://w3c.github.io/aria/svg-aam/svg-aam.html>. 
The in-progress updates to WAI-ARIA 1.1 Practices are available in an
Editors' Draft at  <http://w3c.github.io/aria/practices/aria-practices.html>
<http://w3c.github.io/aria/practices/aria-practices.html>. 

The status of WAI-ARIA versions is updated in the WAI-ARIA FAQ:
<http://www.w3.org/WAI/aria/faq#status>
<http://www.w3.org/WAI/aria/faq#status>

*For review*:

This version of ARIA 1.1 adds term, figure, and feed roles, adds a value for
aria-setsize, and adjusts the support of states and properties on some
roles. It also adds a note that the aria-describedat property is likely to
be removed from ARIA 1.1. Updates to Accessibility API Mappings
specifications provide mappings for new and updated WAI-ARIA 1.1 features
and expand of previous mappings, including for native host language
features. They also remove MSAA+UIA Express mappings. WAI-ARIA Authoring
Practices provides additional refinements to the authoring guidance.

*Comments*:

Please submit comments the the publicly-archived e-mail:
   public-aria-comments@w3.org
or file an issue in GitHub:
   https://github.com/w3c/aria/issues/
by *15 January 2016*

URI:
The first URIs above go to the latest versions of the documents. The "dated"
versions of these drafts are:
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-wai-aria-1.1-20151119/>
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-wai-aria-1.1-20151119/>,
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-core-aam-1.1-20151119/>
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-core-aam-1.1-20151119/>,
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-accname-aam-1.1-20151119/>
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-accname-aam-1.1-20151119/>,
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-svg-aam-1.0-20151119/>
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-svg-aam-1.0-20151119/>, and
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-wai-aria-practices-1.1-20151119/>
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-wai-aria-practices-1.1-20151119/>. The
difference between these URIs are explained in Referencing and Linking to
WAI Guidelines and Technical Documents at:
<http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/linking.html>
<http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/linking.html>

Please let us know if you have any questions. Thank you in advance for your
comments.
Feel free to circulate this message to other lists; please avoid
cross-postings where possible.

Regards,
Rich Schwerdtfeger, ARIA WG Chair
Michael Cooper, ARIA W3C Staff Contact