First Public Working Drafts: WAI-ARIA 1.2, Core-AAM 1.2, WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices 1.2

The Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) Working Group has published three First Public Working Drafts:

• Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.2: Accessibility of web content requires semantic information about widgets, structures, and behaviors, in order to allow assistive technologies to convey appropriate information to persons with disabilities. This specification provides an ontology of roles, states, and properties that define accessible user interface elements and can be used to improve the accessibility and interoperability of web content and applications. These semantics are designed to allow an author to properly convey user interface behaviors and structural information to assistive technologies in document-level markup.
• Core Accessibility API Mappings 1.2: This document describes how user agents should expose semantics of web content languages to accessibility APIs. This helps users with disabilities to obtain and interact with information using assistive technologies. Documenting these mappings promotes interoperable exposure of roles, states, properties, and events implemented by accessibility APIs and helps to ensure that this information appears in a manner consistent with author intent.
• WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices 1.2: This document provides readers with an understanding of how to use WAI-ARIA 1.2 [WAI-ARIA-1.2] to create accessible rich internet applications. It describes considerations that might not be evident to most authors from the WAI-ARIA specification alone and recommends approaches to make widgets, navigation, and behaviors accessible using WAI-ARIA roles, states, and properties. This document is directed primarily to Web application developers, but the guidance is also useful for user agent and assistive technology developers.

These document are part of the WAI-ARIA suite described in the WAI-ARIA Overview.

by Xueyuan Jia via W3C News