CR Request for ARIA in HTML

[siusin]

Document title, URLs, estimated publication date

ARIA in HTML
https://www.w3.org/TR/html-aria/
W3C Candidate Recommendation Snapshot 06 July 2021

Abstract

This specification defines the authoring rules (author conformance requirements) for the use of Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.1 and Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.0 attributes on [HTML] elements. This specification's primary objective is to define requirements for use with conformance checking tools used by authors (i.e., web developers). These requirements will aid authors in their development of web content, including custom interfaces/widgets, that makes use of ARIA to complement or extend the features of the host language [HTML].

Status

ARIA in HTML is an [HTML] specification module. Any HTML features, conformance requirements, or terms that this specification module makes reference to, but does not explicitly define, are defined in the HTML specification.

This document was published by the Web Applications Working Group as a Candidate Recommendation Snapshot. This document is intended to become a W3C Recommendation.

GitHub Issues are preferred for discussion of this specification. Alternatively, you can send comments to our mailing list. Please send them to [email protected] (subscribe, archives).
Publication as a Candidate Recommendation does not imply endorsement by the W3C Membership. A Candidate Recommendation Snapshot has received wide review and is intended to gather implementation experience.

This Candidate Recommendation is not expected to advance to Proposed Recommendation any earlier than 28 June 2021.
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This document is governed by the 15 September 2020 W3C Process Document.

Link to group's decision to request transition

w3c/html-aria#326
8 people supported.

Changes

None.

Requirements satisfied

None.

Dependencies met (or not)

HTML Accessibility API Mappings 1.0 and SVG Accessibility API Mappings are in WD status, the group believe these features will become stable and widely implemented when ARIA in HTML moves to REC.

Wide Review

The horizontal review result were tracked in #273, and there are no outstanding issues

Issues addressed

No open issues for 1.0. See issues with the label To Do for 1.0

Formal Objections

None.

Implementation

The editors confirmed that the number of features at risk is now zero. An implementation report is also available

Patent disclosures

https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/webapps/ipr

[plehegar]

cc @brewerj @michael-n-cooper

[plehegar]

Additional information (correct if any are wrong):

• The Snapshot will be based on the editor's draft. If so, here is the proposed publication. modulo the mention of no feature at-risk in the SOTD.
• Normative references seem fine. (The checker incorrectly flag /TR/html-aam/ and /TR/html-aria/)
• The date of the CR review period is missing. It must be 28 days or longer. Given that we have no issues and we have implementation, can we use August 3 as a date and move to Proposed Recommendation shortly after? cc @scottaohara
• Note that the work on the SVG Accessibility API Mapping is stalled at the moment. Not a stopper for the transition however.
• The horizontal board reports no needs-resolution horizontal issues.

[swickr]

Note that both the HTML and SVG Accessibility API Mappings are currently in Working Draft state.

In the case of the SVG AAM mapping, the reference is to a definition and the usage in ARIA in HTML looks stable independent of the specifics of that definition.

For the HTML AAM mapping, there is a stronger dependency but the WG seems to be actively working on this so it can manage the CR exit timeline.

[swickr]

Transition approved.

[siusin]

Published -> https://www.w3.org/TR/2021/CR-html-aria-20210706/