Re: Transition Announcement: WAI-ARIA Last Call and WAI-ARIA User Agent Implementation Guide FPWD

With humblest apologies, we are correcting the ARIA Last Call comment due date as
follows:

Comments should be made by *17 April 2009*.

Janina Sajka, WAI-PF Co-Chair

Janina Sajka writes:
> 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
> 
> -- 
> 
> Janina Sajka,	Phone:	+1.202.595.7777;
> 		sip:janina@CapitalAccessibility.Com
> Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC	http://CapitalAccessibility.Com
> 
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> Chair, Open Accessibility	janina@a11y.org	
> Linux Foundation		http://a11y.org
> 

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Janina Sajka,	Phone:	+1.202.595.7777;
		sip:janina@CapitalAccessibility.Com
Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC	http://CapitalAccessibility.Com

Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada
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Chair, Open Accessibility	janina@a11y.org	
Linux Foundation		http://a11y.org

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