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

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 1.0 User Agent Implementation
Guide.

    * Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.0:
      http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-wai-aria-20100916/
    * WAI-ARIA 1.0 User Agent Implementation Guide:
      http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-wai-aria-implementation-20100916/

WAI-ARIA User Agent Guide is a First Public Working Draft as a document
intended to become a W3C Recommendation. It was previously intended to
become a Working Group Note. Because of the change in formality, patent
policy requirements require it to be republished as a First Public
Working Draft. This change 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 of WAI-ARIA <http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria/> and the publicly
visible editors' draft of WAI-ARIA User Agent Implementation Guide
<http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria-implementation/>.

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

Requirements for WAI-ARIA are set out in Roadmap for Accessible Rich
Internet Applications:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-wai-aria-roadmap-20080204/. 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. The PFWG has worked with
commenters who might have proceeded to Formal Objection to ensure an
acceptable compromise was reached.

In light of the above, the following Working Groups are particularly
requested to review WAI-ARIA 1.0:

    * HTML
    * SVG
    * Math
    * Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
    * Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines
    * User Agent Accessibility Guidelines
    * Education and Outreach
    * Multimodal Interaction

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
		sip:janina@asterisk.rednote.net

Chair, Open Accessibility	janina@a11y.org	
Linux Foundation		http://a11y.org

Chair, Protocols & Formats
Web Accessibility Initiative	http://www.w3.org/wai/pf
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)