Re: Call for Review: Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.0 Working Draft

Paul,

it is certainly the intention that these roles would be used for any Web document, and not only for the area of digital publishing. There is no (there shouldn't be, if there is, it is a bug:-) any such restriction in the specification nor will there be in the upcoming AT mapping of those terms.

Ivan

> On 22 Nov 2015, at 23:47, Paul Bohman <paul.bohman@deque.com> wrote:
> 
> Will these digital publishing roles be available for use in regular web pages? There is a need for things like footnotes, for example, in regular web pages, even if they're not in digital publications. I'm thinking of footnotes with legal disclaimers, the small print about special offers, etc. Will it be frowned-upon to use these new roles in those situations?
> 
> 
> Paul Bohman, PhD
> Director of Training, Deque Systems, Inc
> 703-225-0380, ext.121
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> 
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Michael Cooper <cooper@w3.org <mailto:cooper@w3.org>> wrote:
> Dear WAI Interest Group and Digital Publishing Interest Group Participants,
> 
> We invite you to comment on a new Working Draft of Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.0 at:
>      http://www.w3.org/TR/dpub-aria-1.0/ <http://www.w3.org/TR/dpub-aria-1.0/>
> Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.0 extends WAI-ARIA 1.1 to define an ontology of roles, states, and properties specific to digital publishing. It facilitates automated processing and accessibility support by providing semantics that are not included in base languages such as HTML. It allows authors to convey structural information to assistive technologies, and to enable semantic navigation, styling, and interactive features used by readers.
> 
> Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.0 is part of a suite of WAI-ARIA-related specifications introduced in the WAI-ARIA Overview at <http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria> <http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria>.
> 
> *For review*:
> 
> This version includes new roles, removed the glossterm and glossdef roles, changes the prefix for role names from "dpub" to "doc", and refines the properties for roles previously defined.
> 
> *Comments*:
> Please submit comments by filing an issue in the W3C ARIA GitHub repository, using the "dpub" label in the issue:
>    https://github.com/w3c/aria/issues/new <https://github.com/w3c/aria/issues/new>
> or by sending mail to the publicly-archived e-mail:
>    public-dpub-aria-comments@w3.org <mailto:public-dpub-aria-comments@w3.org>
> by *15 January 2016*
> 
> Development:
> Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module is developed through the Digital Publishing ARIA Task Force, a joint task force of the Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group and the Digital Publishing Interest Group. Information about the Digital Publishing ARIA Task Force Home Page is at: <http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/dpub-a11y-tf> <http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/dpub-a11y-tf>.
> 
> The in-progress updates to Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.0 are available in an Editors' Draft at <http://w3c.github.io/aria/aria/dpub.html> <http://w3c.github.io/aria/aria/dpub.html>.
> URI:
> The first URIs above go to the latest version of this document. The "dated" version of this draft is <http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-dpub-aria-1.0-20151119/> <http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-dpub-aria-1.0-20151119/>. 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
> Tzviya Siegman, Digital Publishing IG Chair
> Markus Gylling, Digital Publishing IG Chair
> Michael Cooper, PFWG W3C Staff Contact
> Ivan Herman, Digital Publishing Activity Lead
> 


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