Graphics-ARIA and Graphics-AAM Recommendations

WAI-ARIA Graphics Module (Graphics-ARIA) and Graphics Accessibility API 
Mappings (Graphics-AAM) are W3C Recommendations:
   https://www.w3.org/TR/graphics-aria-1.0/
   https://www.w3.org/TR/graphics-aam-1.0/

Graphics-ARIA provides three roles to allow an author to express the 
logical structure of graphics to assistive technologies. These three 
roles identify a class of structured graphics documents such as charts, 
maps, diagrams, technical drawing, blue prints and instructional 
graphics. Within graphics documents, roles allow identification of 
distinct objects or sub-component with semantic meaning, and symbols 
where the meaning is more important than the particular visual 
appearance. These roles work with structured graphics languages like 
SVG. Graphics Accessibility API Mappings defines how these roles should 
be exposed to accessibility APIs, and serves as a basis for SVG-specific 
work in SVG Accessibility API Mappings being developed separately. 
Future work on graphics accessibility is expected to build on the basic 
roles defined in this 1.0 version.

At this time, the ARIA Working Group does not plan future versions of 
Graphics-ARIA, but may do so if additional requirements, and 
knowledgeable people able to help define features, test cases, and 
implementations, are presented to the Working Group. Please provide 
feedback by filing an issue in the W3C graphics-aria GitHub repository 
(https://github.com/w3c/graphics-aria/) for Graphics ARIA, or the W3C 
graphics-aam GitHub repository (https://github.com/w3c/graphics-aam/) 
for Graphics AAM. If this is not feasible, send email to public-aria@w3.org.

Received on Wednesday, 3 October 2018 14:22:12 UTC