W3C

– DRAFT –
ARIA WG

22 May 2025

Attendees

Present
Adam_Page, chrishtr, CurtBellew, Daniel, Francis_Storr, front-endian-jane, katez, lola, melsumner, pkra, Siri, StefanS
Regrets
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Chair
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Scribe
pkra

Meeting minutes

New PR Triage

jamesn: we're skipping issue triage this week. We want to do it every 2 weeks.
… but we'll do PR triage to get the massigned.

spectranaut_: the PR triage might move to a later point in the meeting.

jamesn: helps with late coming.

jamesn: first PR is adding rahim as html-aam editor.

clay: will do.

jamesn: next one for peter

pkra: yes.

jamesn: last one is DPUB update.
… this can be done without the group

WPT Open PRs

jamesn: I don't think anything new here this week

Deep Dive planning

aardrian: is a tables deep dive reasonable? There are 3 issues, one already had a deep dive but I'd like the others two ready by TPAC.

jamesn: depends a bit. Might make sense to wait for tpac, depending what you're after.

aardrian: right, I was hoping to prep so we can finalize at TPAC.
… I'd start with table sorting.

jamesn: do you have a preferred week?

aardrian: not super urgent.

lola: for those who don't know me, I'm independent. I was working on standards at beaucoup, incl. aria-at.
… also on TAG.
… this project I've called "accessibility compat data"
… inspired by browser compat project.
… cf. mdn.
… there've been comments asking about this kind of thing.
… there's a11y support, focused on aria attributes
… aria-at is more focused on APG

<jamesn> https://github.com/lolaodelola/accessibility-compat-data/blob/master/proposal.md

lola: this will be a complicated project. There has been previous work and it will be important to understand what has been done or tried.

<jamesn> https://github.com/lolaodelola/accessibility-compat-data/issues

lola: the links leads to the repository with detailed readmes, issues and (not yet public) project board.
… this is a long term effort and I hope to get a conversation going.

jamesn: this would fit into a plenary session at TPAC.

lola: yes. I'm also planning on other workshops to involve people outside of the usual groups.

jamesn: great. when do you want do the deep dive?

spectranaut_: June 19?

lola: sounds good.

aardrian: junetheenth?

jamesn: then june 12

spectranaut_: I'll schedule it.

<aardrian> w3c/aria#283

jamesn: when should do the table deep dive?

aardrian: doesn't need as much prep, I think.
… next slot would be fine.

spectranaut_: next week would be an option. I was hoping to do an aria orientation.

jamesn: ok, then more likely july.

aardrian: either is good.

spectranaut_: 29th is good.

AccName PR Bash

jamesn: 10 open PRs. Can we move some forward?
… first up: w3c/aria#2207
… has 3 approving reviews.
… it's not building?
… is there any objection? It has reviews. It's not normative. There's only an ID change. Are we worried about other places linking here?

pkra: is there an official policy? E.g., "create an anchor with id"?

jamesn: nothing official, but we'd rather not.

melsumner: checks have passed. If something breaks elsewhere, we can fix it.

jamesn: can we file a bug for the follow up?

melsumner: will do.

jamesn: then let's merge.
… next one: w3c/aria#2209
… this is for aria-actions. So we should probably not merge it?
… maybe move it to aria-action PR.
… next one: w3c/aria#2210
… sorry, w3c/aria#2209

spectranaut_: this is name from heading

jamesn: old one had 2 approving review from mel and accdc.

spectranaut_: but I never got to it.

pkra: I had made a suggestion on the other PR about name-from-heading to move things forward by splitting normative changes.

<smockle> Is this blocked by https://github.com/w3c/aria/pull/1860?

pkra: this would fit here, too, since it doesn't need implementations as long as we don't specify roles that should have it.
… and maybe those PRs should be combined.

scott: right, I never got to merging those. These are older than monorepo.

jamesn: how are we on implementations?

scott: as far as I know, nothing.

spectranaut_: could someone do the work to combine them?

clay: you could merge them into each other.

spectranaut_: ah, great idea.

james: oops, doesn't quite work.

pkra: the other one is very old, too. jcraig had commented that it's difficult to rebase.

jamesn: switching back.

mel: let's add waiting-for-implementation so we remember?

jamesn: sounds good.
… next: w3c/aria#2210
… has sufficient reviewers.
… this probably needs tests?

spectranaut_: we should copy the old checklist.
… let's copy the process from the old PR and uncheck (now that we can test accname).

jamesn: but it seems to match implementations.
… and maybe there are tests already.

pkra: anyone willing to write tests?

jane: I will give it a try.

spectranaut_: happy to help.

jamesn: next: arianotify draft.
w3c/aria#2211
… this is accidental.
… next w3c/aria#2269
… editorial
… seems like we can close this?

melsumner: yes.

jamesn: w3c/aria#2299
… two positive reviews. jcraig left a comment.

aardrian: looks like it needs more edits.

melsumner: I'll find time.

jamesn: next: w3c/aria#2377
… I don't think I agree.

aardrian: bryan point was also a strong one.

jamesn: right.

aardrian: does the test cited in the issue need an update then?

jamesn: looking at the test, I think there's a misunderstanding. The test seems to follow the spec

aardrian: that's my impression as well.

melsumner: is this one of the issues we grouped in the accname board?

jamesn: I don't understand the point the PR is making.

spectranaut_: given that Bryan commented as to the misunderstanding, can we close with a comment, with the option of filing an issue?

jamesn: will do.
… next: w3c/aria#2419
… we have reviews.

pkra: there's a merge conflict. but does it need tests?

scott: I think the conflict was with a related PR. I had suggested to merge the two.
… but we merged the other one a few weeks ago.

spectranaut_: so it just needs an update from Rahim.

jamesn: I'll try it.
… [live hacking]
… shall I merge?

everyon: yeah!!!!

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