Transition Announcement: Role Attribute republished as First Public Working Draft

The Protocols and Formats Working Group announces the *First Public
Working Draft* of Role Attribute 1.0:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-role-attribute-20100916/.

Role Attribute is a First Public Working Draft of the PFWG. It was
previously published (under short-name "xhtml-role") by the XHTML 2
Working Group, but has been transferred to the PFWG with a short-name
change. Publication by the PFWG is enabled by the new PFWG charter at
http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/charter201006.

Start with the instructions for commenting
<http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/comments/instructions> page to submit comments
(preferred), or send email to public-pfwg-comments@w3.org
<mailto:public-pfwg-comments@w3.org> (comment archive
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-pfwg-comments/>). Comments
should be made by *29 October 2010*. Comments received to date and
current state of discussion may be accessed from the PFWG comment
tracking page on at http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/comments/. In-progress
updates to the documents may be viewed in the publicly visible editors'
draft <http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/role-attribute/>.

The Protocols and Formats Working Group resolved to request transition
and publication of this document on 4 August 2010:
http://www.w3.org/2010/08/04-pf-minutes#item03.

There have been no Formal Objections raised.

The following Working Groups are particularly requested to review Role
Attribute 1.0:

    * HTML
    * SVG

Patent information related to these documents may be accessed from
http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/32212/status.


Janina Sajka,	Phone:	+1.443.300.2200
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Web Accessibility Initiative	http://www.w3.org/wai/pf
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)