- From: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
- Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 20:42:05 -0500
- To: chairs@w3.org, wai-xtech@w3.org, w3c-wai-pf@w3.org, rubys@intertwingly.net, cwilso@microsoft.com, ed@opera.com, cam@mcc.id.au, Roland_Merrick@uk.ibm.com, steven@w3.org
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 > > Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada > Learn more at http://ScreenlessPhone.Com > > Chair, Open Accessibility janina@a11y.org > Linux Foundation http://a11y.org > -- 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 Learn more at http://ScreenlessPhone.Com Chair, Open Accessibility janina@a11y.org Linux Foundation http://a11y.org
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