New version of W3C ARIA Authoring Practices available

A new version of the W3C ARIA Authoring Practices was published last month.
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Major additions and revisions:

  *   Added section providing guidance on coding and composing accessible names and descriptions. This section comprehensively covers ARIA and HTML naming and describing techniques as well as specific guidance for every ARIA role.
  *   Added example of a site navigation bar (menu system) with dropdown lists of links coded using the disclosure pattern.
  *   Added an example of a date picker based on the dialog and grid patterns. A modal dialog contains a calendar grid that presents buttons for each day of a month.
  *   Added an example of a date picker that uses three spin buttons for day, month, and year.
  *   Image Carousel Example: Updated the example so that the rotation control is always visible instead of only being visible for keyboard users who move focus into the carousel region. Also changed the controls so they are implemented with HTML button elements instead of links with the button role.
  *   Toolbar Example: Added popup text labels for icons that are displayed on both hover and focus.

Minor revisions of guidance or implementation were made to the following design patterns and examples:

  *   Editor Menubar Example: Updated example so that meta data used by the scripts is specified using data- attributes instead of with rel attributes.
  *   Radio Group with Active Descendant Example: Removed unused keycodes and fixed linting issues.

Change history:
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Jon


Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., CPWA
Coordinator of Accessible IT Group
University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
1207 S. Oak Street
Champaign, IL 61820

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